Re: Problems copying user Profiles

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"Kathleen37" <Kathleen37@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Morning, I hope someone can help.

I need to copy about 50 user profiles (win2k machines, but going into a
NT4
domain) to win2k users going into win2k domain.

I am aware of the "copy profile" function in the "System" applet in
control
panel, however, there is a bug, refered to here;

"No Domains Listed in "Copy to" Dialog Box for Profiles"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257489/en-us

but the fix, is to install service pack 2 on windows 2k server. Can't find
any specific patches and we currently have service pack 4 on all win2k
servers and service pack 6 on nt4.

Any idea's on how to get around this?

Also, in a few weeks, we'll be upgrading the NT4 domain to Win2k (making
it
a child domain of the current Win2k domain) Users are currently Win2k
pro,
so will there be any issues with local profiles when the domain is
upgraded?

Many thanks for your help!.

K

I suspect that the functionality you're after is equivalent to
running the following two commands:

xcopy /s /h /y /c /o "c:\documents and settings\SomeUser" "c:\documents and
settings\SomeOtherUser\"
cacls "c:\documents and settings\SomeOtherUser\" /e /t /c /g SomeGroup:F

This would allow you to sidestep the problem you report.


.



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