Re: Administrator Profile corruption

Wow, I had to Wiki that one. =] You're all right, Super.

Anyways, as a troubleshooter, I'm obliged to first check my toolset,
which includes the RSoP wizard. A Neanderthal can run it and even
observe the results, which explains why I have no problem firing it up
myself. I'm off to bed. Thanks for the neat Occam razor reference.


SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:
been wrong before Justin but I don't see how a policy error would cause the
behaviour.

My _guess_ is some form of corruption or possibly permission (permission
corruption possibly?) that causes the logon process a problem which results
in a new profile being created at each logon.

There may be policy items which could lead to such but if we assume that
policy hasn't been incorrectly adjusted (Occam's razor?) then fault is the
most obvious choice. Fault reading policy is a distinct possibility, given
the errors, but it's hard to interpret garbage or absence of information as
'I'm told to do this'.

and yes, simply creating a new user with domain admin level access and
signing on a couple of times, see if it suffers the same symptoms, is a
valid test. This would distinguish 'is it the admin profile?' vs 'is it all
profiles?' but doesn't rule out 'is there something wrong with the default,
or 'all user', profile?'. Neither does my suggestion.

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What else would interfere with a local user profile?

...Andre, can you create a test user and see if the symptom occurs on
that one as well?

SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:
dunno why you're mentioning policies.

The policy errors below indicate the SBS is having a hard time talking to
itself, or could be poor performance in that queries to AD are timing
out.

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's an interesting thought, although I presume that any user account,
including this hypothetical admin account, would still be subject to
the Default Domain Policy and Default DC Policy assuming the User
portion has some settings defined.

SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:
something else I haven't got around to confirming is the effect on SBS
of
deleting the admin profile but this set of circumstances would have me
creating another domain admin (directly in ADUC, no wiz) and using it
to
at
least move all 500 profiles, see if 500 signon then works normally.

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <jcbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I guess a better question would be, have you run RSoP against your
administrator logon to see which group policy objects are applied?

Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
I see the same CMD dialog at every logon, both in Windows XP and in
SBS. If I think about it, client setup wizard probably runs on the
server, as well, though I couldn't begin to tell you what it does.

Where to you find the administrator account in Active Directory
Users
and Computers?



Andre wrote:
Thanks for your reply Justin,

The answer to your question is no.

However maybe this is a clue: When I RDP into server login, i
get
the
error
"client setup Wizard..the system cannot copy a file from the
server
to
this
computer.
Make sure that network cable and devices are plugged in and
functioning
properly and try again to join this computer to the network"

However this is the DC so it would not require the 'client setup
wizard' i
also know for a fact that it's not a network problem as I am
coming
in
over
the wan.

Also a cmd promt is running in the background with the following:

'C:\Documents and
Settings\administrator.clc.002>\\CLCHOMEPDC\Clients\Setup\setup
.exe /s CLCHOMEPDC'

I'm on administrator.clc.006 it just creates a new profile
everytime
login.

I am begining to think it's not profile corruption, but a
different
problem
maybe some script or policy.



Also under GPO Policy Events I'm getting EVENTID 1097 ' Windows
cannot
find
the machine account, Not enough storage is available to process
this
command.'

as well as EVENTID 1030 'Windows cannot query for the list of
Group
Policy
objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously
logged
by
the
policy engine that describes the reason for this.'

Think I'm getting closer but need help on this one.


"Justin Brown - SYNACS" wrote:

Does this domain use roaming profiles via Group Policy? If so,
was
the
administrator account mistakenly included in the roaming
profiles
group?

Andre wrote:
Hi I have a problem on 2003 SBS.

Everytime I login It creates a new profile name. eg:
admin.001
.admin.002
admin.003 ect ect.

I realise that the original profile is corrupt however why
does
it
continue
to recreate a new profile evertime I login?

In the H_KEY LOCAL
MACHINE/Sotfware/Microsoft/Wondowsnt/currentversion/profilelist
I'm currently at administrator.005

Everytime I login it will replace the previous. How can I
stop
this
from
happening?


I have come across this problem before on XP but never on a
DC.

It's on a production network so I have to get this right 1st
time.

Please help if you know the solution.

Thanks Andre






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