Repairing Profiles 2

[maverick]

I had a server that crashed;<br>
My profiles were on a share ($Profiles)on a different drive,<br>
So I formated the C:\ and reinstalled Server 4.0,<br>
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Is there any way to repair my old profiles ?<br>
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when I create the person again in UserManagerForDomains,<br>
He is assigned a new SID which gives me User.000 folders<br>
which means he's not using the same profile,<br>
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Any ideas how to repair this problem ?<br>
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Thanks !<br>
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[DougP]

Can you look in their old folder i.e. User with no 000 attached to it.<br>
you need Administrator Privileges to do this.<br>
Or is that the folder that was deleted?<br>
The Profile file name is NTUSER.DAT or NTUSER.MAN if they cannot change it.<br>
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Do you know how to set the Profile path if one already exists<br>
1. In Administrative Tools on the Server<br>
2. User Manager for Domains<br>
3. Double click the User<br>
4. Click Profiles button <br>
5. Type in path i.e. \\Servername\Sharename\profilelocation …. <br>
If an NTUSER.DAT file is there it will use it<br>
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To create a New profile if its lost forever<br>
On Client Station<br>
6. Set up the profile i.e. Desktop settings, Wallpapers, icons, Printers, Drive mappings etc.<br>
7. Go into Control Panel <br>
8. Click System icon<br>
9. User Profiles TAB<br>
10. Then Copy to.<br>
Put it in a safe place then follow steps above to 1-5 to put it in your new user<br>

 

[david902]

I just had this happen to me the other day, moving a NT workstation to a new domain, lost everything, user profile tab everything was set to unknown account, I couldn't recover and ended up copying the profile directory, deleting & recreating the domain user and logging back in, this reconfigured the workstation as a new user and then I manually copied needed files from the saved profile directory. Not that this may help you but I do know now that some or all of the profile information is stored in the SAM database.

 

[maverick]

I don't want to create new users I want to keep the ones I used to have !<br>
Just Like David902 said , Thats what happened to me too!!<br>
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If all I have is there old profile directories !<br>
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Is there any way of putting the old profiles back on to the new system(install)from the old system $profile directories??<br>
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Thanks Guys !<br>
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[DougP]

Are you guys not reading my post above you.

 

[maverick]

Sorry DougP,<br>
<br>
I'll try that and post !<br>
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I guess I didn't read it right the first time !<br>
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I think your saying that after setting up the server, just direct the new user profile to his old profile and if a dat file is there it will use it as the new users dat ! <br>
? right ?<br>
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I'll let you know !<br>
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Thanks !

 

[maverick]

It worked !!<br>
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Thanks.....DougP

 

[DougP]

Right O Chaps.<br>