Mandatory user profile not working

[donem]

First off, I have already seen this thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1131016

I am trying to get a local mandatory user profile working. I login as administrator. I change the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man. I logout administrator. I login as the user. Make a change. Logout, log back in, and the change is still there. It does not revert back to the original profile like it should. I also notcied that it has created another ntuser.dat. It as if it's ignoring the ntuser.man file. However, if I go to the My Computer > Properties > Advanced > User Profiles screen, it does show the profile type as mandatory. I'm stumped. I tried creating a new user and doing the same. I get the same result.

I thought that all you had to do was switch the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man and you were good to go.

Anyone know what the problem could be?

I am running SP3 if that matters.

 

[Lemon13]

u need to log in at least once with that account before u rename ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

 

[donem]

That I tried. Still no luck.

 

[Lemon13]

did u specify the correct profil path?

by ms

"If users will only log on to Windows 2000- or Windows XP-based computers, the user profile path should point to a folder name and the path should not include either the .usr or .man extension

 

[donem]

Well, it is a local profile. I mean, I create the user, log in as the user, log off, log in as admin, change the users ntuser.dat to ntuser.man, log off admin, log back in as the user, make changes, log off the user, log back in as the user, and the changes are still there. I tried rebooting also instead of just logging off. I'm not even redirecting it to another profile folder (though, yes, i've tried that too). I'm letting it use it's own local profile.