ntuser.pds folder

[Leco]

Has anyone any idea what this folder is and where it comes from? My Profile folders have suddenly started generating ntuser.pds folders inside the main profile folder on my NT4 Server. The ntuser.pds folder appears to contain duplicates of all folders within the profile folder and cannot be modified or deleted even by a User with full Administrator permissions.
I Leco

 

[Jpoandl]

This happens when you have NT 3.5x profiles stored on NT 4.0 machines...

See this for more info:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q174/4/91.ASP

and this..

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/9/50.ASP

-hope this helps Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

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[Leco]

Thanks for this. The only thing is I wasn't aware that I had any NT3.5x users! All the profiles were created on NT4 and all apart from one were/are being used from workstations running Win2K. The exception was a user on a Win98 SE machine. This user now has a Win2K machine.
Would that change of OS make all other profiles create ntuser.pds files?
I Leco

 

[Jpoandl]

Not sure...maybe there we're NT 3.5x machines in the environment before you starting working for this company..?

More info:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/5/88.ASP

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

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[Leco]

I've been here forever . . . well not quite but certainly since the network was installed.
However, I've re-built all the profiles from the bottom up (or should that be from the top down?) because some stopped working and I don't want the same thing to happen again. Fore warned is etc..
Thanks for the help. I Leco