Re: Help with Profiles

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From: Todd J Heron (todd_heron_no_spam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/04


Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:57:46 -0500

Check the Share permissions.

-- 
Todd J Heron, MCSE
Windows Server 2003/2000/NT
"Paul" <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:49C57BCD-0389-4E14-98CC-74A405E4567A@microsoft.com...
>I posted on here yesterday about needing help setting up profiles and 
>someone
> kindly helped me with this.
>
> But when the users logon, they haven't got rights to change anything. How
> can I assign these rights?
>
> The help I was given is below
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>     Original Help
>
>   Paul:
> Here are the steps that I use
>
> 1. Create a shred directory on the server.  I call it E:\Profiles and I
> shere it as Profiles$. (this hides it from the brows list)
> 2. Set the permissions on the share to Full Control to all users that will
> be storing thier profiles.
> 3. You will not have to create the users profile directories, the OS will 
> do
> this the first time they log in.  The OS will also set the approiate
> permissions.
> 4. Set the Profile path to \\servername\Profiles$\%username% on the 
> profile
> tab of the user.  Don't forget the $ if you included it in the share name.
> 5. The user logs in and creates the path and permissions,  the user logs 
> out
> and the local profile gets copied to the network profile path.
>
> I'm sure that there are other ways, but this works for me.
> See Mastering Windows Server 2003 by Mark Minasi.
> 


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