Disjoin and rejoin domain loses user profile?

google_at_westernwares.com
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 9 Feb 2005 09:24:00 -0800

My W2K domain controller crashed and I replaced it with a Windows 2003
Server machine, using the same domain name as the old machine to avoid
modifying the client workstations.

However, now clients cannot login to the (same) domain due to a failed
trust relationship (Event ID 5723).

After some research, it seems that each client must disjoin from the
domain (by choosing a workgroup), then rejoin the same domain.

This works, but the client user loses their profile on that machine
(e.g. desktop layout, My Documents, etc.) Examining the Documents and
Settings folder reveals that a new profile folder was added for the
same domain (e.g. "joe.MYDOMAIN.002")

Is there a way to avoid a new profile being created when rejoining the
domain?

Is there another way to reestachins the computer to domain trust
relationship?

Can I just rename the old Documents and Settings folder to be the new
one (e.g. remove folder "joe.MYDOMAIN.002", then rename "joe.MYDOMAIN"
to "joe.MYDOMAIN.002") to recover the user's original settings?

I don't want every user on every workstation to have to recreate all
their settings just because the PDC crashed and was replaced.

Thanks in advance for any advice

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