Re: Why windows profiles changing

No, the users are not changing the drop down to logon locally instead. That
is not the issue here. I am having the same problem as CAMC1. I recently
upgraded a domain from NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Server R2 with SP1. All clients
are Windows 2000 Professional SP4. Since the server upgrade, which was done
with the Active Directory Migration Tool, all of my users randomly get a new
renamed profile upon login first thing in the morning every 7 to 14 days, and
they are logging into the domain every time. They are not changing to a local
profile login. The SID's apparently are changing. I reviewed the SID's on the
profiles in the registry, and they are different. When it first happened, I
logged on as Administrator and completely deleted all other profiles on the
client to "start from scratch." It still happened. I have been fighting it
for weeks. It is very frustrating. No errors in event logs whatsoever on
client and server when it happens. And good luck deciphering the userenv.log
file, even set to max. Netdiag passes. I've done static IP's instead of DHCP.
I've even setup WINS. For now, I am running an hourly batch file on the
server with getsid to monitor the ID's of the user accounts for changes.
There is nothing on the web about this issue, and it is driving me and my
client crazy! Never seen anything like it in 10+ years of server support.

"Scott Harding" wrote:

Sounds like they were logging locally and not onto the domain at one point
and now they are logging onto the domain? This is not a problem this is by
design.

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Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, Net +, A+
MVP - Windows Server Networking

"CAMC1" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there a solution to this problem?
In our domain, Active Directory won't allow 2 user with same login ID.

The only thing with these users names, their computer names are same as
their login ID on the domain.
(One is the machine account, which is the PC name, the other is users
login
ID)
MC



"Debo" <shonuff6699@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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this happens when more than one profile exist on the machine with the
same name. here is an excerpt from a MS KB:

Windows 2000 and Windows XP handle duplicate down-level account names
as well but in a slightly more intuitive manner. A suffix is placed on
the username of the profile that is either the name of the domain, if
the user account is a domain account, or the name of the computer, if
the user account is a local user account. If, by chance, another user
with the same name from the same domain or computer logs onto the
machine, Windows 2000 or Windows XP adds a .000 suffix to the domain or
computer name. If the action happens again, it then starts incrementing
the .000 as well.

CAMC1 wrote:
Hello,
We use Windows 2000 (SP4) Active Directory domain to login, but for
some
reason, randomly, some user profiles have changed for no apparent
reason.
Example: A user who logged into domain from a PC,
used to have his/her profile was named like
C:\Document and Settings\LOGINID
but now, same person (noticed when person got a new desktop)
Profile is now looks like
C:\Document and Settings\LOGINID.DomainName

What is going on?

Thanks
MC






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