User profiles will not log on properly

[alanbloom]

Hi there
I did have a thread open but thought I had changed things enough to start a new thread.
I am trying to fix a very dodgy set up in a training centre’s IT dept. At the moment, Windows 2000 Server is controlling a number of Windows 2000 workstations.

The workstations need to have a generic profile that has basic user rights but nothing more (I’ll call it userprofile here). The userprofile needs to be setup with specific things in the start menu, etc. At the moment, userprofile has it’s own profile folder located on the server’s hard drive. Also, there is a group object which userprofile is a member of. Unfortunately, there are two problems:

1) The profile will not log on correctly at any workstation. Other existing profiles will work fine but just not the training room user profile. It has the error message “Windows cannot copy file “\\server\userprofile\application data...etc - Access is Denied”.

2) The profile is a member of the administrators group in both the userprofile properties and the group properties. When I remove Administrator from each, it will return a few minutes later. Rebooting does not solve this.

To try and fix this, I have created a new profile, and here I’ll call it tempprofile. It’s the member of a new group too. Both are set to ‘User’ and not administrator, which is fine. Also, I have created a barebone profile on the harddrive of the server for this temp profile to log on with. But this is the result when trying to log on with the new tempprofile:

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Windows cannot create profile directory \\server\tempprofile.pds. You will be logged on with a local profile only.

DETAIL - The network path was not found
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I don’t know whether the problem lies on the workstations or on the server, but I’m confused where the problems are occurring. Help! :-s

 

[wdoellefeld]

The problem to me seems two fold.

You have a roaming profile set on the user account and that account doesn't have permissions to where it's located.

Upon logon the profile stored onthe server is copied locally, this why you see a profile folder locally, and upon logout the profile on the server is updated.

To fix.. either add permissions on the folder listed in the profile path or delete the profile path in the profile tab of the user's account properties.

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[alanbloom]

I think I have added the permissions correctly onto the folder that holds the profile. If no path is defined in the user profile, will that not just log in a 'default' environment every log-in? Ideally, I am setting up a pre-defined mandatory user account which has all the necessary settings relevant to the training computers.

Thanks for your reply!!