Re: Profiles

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TSAM <TSAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I have Windows 2003 domain with mixed clients like Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows Vista.

We use roaming profiles and this network share is configured on a
Windows 2003 Server. For example, when we create a user account in
the profiles tab we specify [ \\FileServer\profiles\user] as the
path. It works as expected with Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients.
With Vista, it appears to be working but we have seen cases where
Vista clients cannot load profiles from this network share.

Please find my queries:

1. It appears Vista creates a profile automatically with .V2
extention. Is it recommended or required to manually create this
folder under the network share where profiles are stored?

No, I believe it's created automatically.

2. What permissions should I see for this user from the network
share? When I browse the user profile folder from the network share
Server, I cannot see any permissions and to me this strange. Is this
the default behaviour for automatically created Vista profile folders?

Do you have the GPO setting enabled to add administrators to roaming profile
folders on the server?

I'm not a Vista expert (shudder) but someone else is bound to post about
that. I'm writing because I wanted to mention that you must not mix 'n match
OS versions when you use roaming profiles, if your users ever log into PCs
with different OSes than they were set up for. It causes problems galore,
even between 2000 and XP.



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