Re: roaming profile on XP workstation

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From: PAV (sc_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:03:29 +0100

When you talk about folders, you are talking about the profile folders on
the server arnt you? Sorry, i new to all this.

I have also read something about SP1 having a setting i can disable, i will
try this too.

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I would make sure that the administrators group is the owner of the folder
and that
> it propagates to the other folders. The user should have the same
permissions as the
> other users have to their folders. I suppose there could be corruption in
the profile
> folder chain. It the administrator already is the owner, change it to
another owner
> and then after it is done propagating change it back to administrators or
try a
> command line utility such as fileacl to change ownership and
ermissions. --- Steve
>
> fileacl c:\userfolder /s administrators:f /sub /force -- give
administrators full
> control
> fileacl c:\userfolder /o administrators /sub /force -- make
administrators owner
> fileacl c:\userfolder /s user:rxwd /sub /force -- give user modify
permissions
>
> http://membres.lycos.fr/jfb/gb/gbtools/fileacl.htm
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&DisplayLang=en
>
> "PAV" <sc@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > I'm currently running Windows 2000 server with XP workstations. Today I
> > installed XP SP1, now the user of that work station cant log on, they
get
> > the following error:
> >
> > Windows did not load your roaming profile and is attempting to log you
on
> > with your local profile. Windows did not load your profile because a
server
> > copy of the profile folder already exists that does not have the correct
> > security. Either the current user of Administrator's group must be the
owner
> > of the folder. Contact you network administrator.
> >
> > The user is also unable to log on to other workstations. I and other
users
> > can log on ok.
> >
> > According to the person who used to look after IT, there are one or two
> > other users with the same problem.
> >
> > Any ideas or suggestions on how to get this working again?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
>

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