Login Creates New Unwanted Profile - Why?

[Mictain]

Hi All,

Just a quick, simple one for those in the know

When one of our users logs onto their PC, their standard profile doesn't load - they're set up as local; instead another folder is created and calls itself username.domain and any logout / login tricks make no difference; it still wants to use this file. Even if it gets deleted, a new one gets created. Any idea why, please?

Corrupt file in the original profile? All AV stuff is up to date before anyone says anything

Thanks,

Neil.

 

[mrmoneymatters]

I had this problem before, I think it is the user.dat file that gets corrupt. I was running roaming profiles when I had this problem. I am not sure of an easy fix.

 

[Mictain]

Thanks, MMM; I thought it might have been as I've also seen something similar before, but the user was on a local profile which made me a little unsure.

If it helps anyone else, I had to go onto the machine as an admin, kill the offending profile and its NTUSER.DAT file, then forced a roaming profile pull from the server for their next login, and that seemed to solve it (fingers crossed!)

Thanks,

Neil.

 

[mrmoneymatters]

Good job, sorry I couldn't help more.

 

[zaznet]

This is default behavior for windows clients (and servers) when you login to them. Sounds like you fixed your roaming problem though.

Nathan aka: zaz (zaznet)
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