Re: roaming profiles


"philh" <philh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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thanks for your help over the last few days.
I'm nearly up and running.
now my final problem is that my client machines are trying to syncronise
with my old server. It isn't plugged in anymore but I have copied most of
the
good information across.
any ideas.
I'm thinking of running dcpromo and demoting the old server so that it
isn't
a domain controller any more but the files that are trying to syncronise
still exsist
although the old server is very old and well past it's use by date!!! i
think this might work.

Dcpromo won't help you - I suggest you don't start mucking around it or you
may end up with more of a mess than you have now. You need to do some work
on your clients to remove the references to the old server they were trying
to sync to.....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884739
http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/08/21/218463.aspx

Do you actually *need* offline files? I usually disable offline file syncing
outright via group policy as I don't like it and haven't found it to be
reliable - and on a wired LAN connection I truly see no value in it.




"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:


"philh" <philh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As you can all guess by now I'm not entierly sure what I'm doing!

As I said in my last post Our supprt have messed things up and I have
been
given the ipportunity to sort it out and let our school bin the support
package and save some money which will be going into my pocket.

I have managed to create a user (me) in the active directory and can
log
on
from one client machine (i joined it to the domain and gave it a static
ip
on
the client running XP pro)

HOwever when i log in to the network i get the error message cannot
locate
your roaming profile attempting to log on with your local profile.
i click ok
then my local profile cannot be located so i am logged on with a temp
profile.
Could anyone point me in the right direction for sorting this out.

cheers



No need to start a new thread - I replied in your existing one. Did you
see
it? Best to keep things in there unless you don't get a response for
several
days.





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