User Profile Question

[fivetenmm]

I have a client running SBS2003 and Windows XP SP2 on the desktop. They are using roaming profiles and offline caching. One of the users is having an issue where when he goes to delete files that are sitting on his desktop, they reappear the next time he logs in. Does anybody have any ideas on possible causes and or fixes for this issue?

Thanks in advance!
FiveTenMM

 

[ShackDaddy]

Seems like your profile might be named ntuser.man instead of ntuser.dat, since it's behaving like a mandatory roaming profile and not a standard one. Is that possible?

And check out this article:

http://windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=74814

It suggests that you have to explicitly disable share caching or you will get instability when you have roaming profiles and offline files used together.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[fivetenmm]

Thanks ShackDaddy,

Is a mandatory roaming profile a read-only copy of the profile at the user share? If so, would changing it to a standard roaming profile fix the issue? Or is it better to disable offline caching of the share containing the profile?

 

[ShackDaddy]

If the profile on the server is saved as a .man file, then it's a mandatory profile, and that's causing the problem. Changing the suffix from .man to .dat would solve the problem.

If that's not what's going on, you should definitely disable offline caching of the share that has the profile. Really, you should do this no matter what else is happening if you are combining offline files and roaming profiles.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting