Wrong user Profile loading at logon

[DanM]

Hello,<br>We are a company that uses an NT 4.0 network with approx. 600 clients.&nbsp;&nbsp;We use roaming profiles to control user rights on each machine in the network.&nbsp;&nbsp;We recently installed SMS 2.0 sp1 and then the fun began.&nbsp;&nbsp;About three weeks after the install, users were logging in and the wrong profile would appear on the screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;This only occurs on certain machines.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I disabled the SMS server, the problem stopped spreading but remained on the machines that were already affected.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even when a domain admin logs in a profile is loaded even when it doesn't use a profile!&nbsp;&nbsp;Any thoughts would be appreciated.<br><br>DanM

 

[Zelandakh]

Sounds like a locally cached setting to me. Check each machine affected and see what type of profiles it thinks should be in use.

 

[DanM]

Thanks for your response.&nbsp;&nbsp;I've been dealing with this for weeks now.&nbsp;&nbsp;I couldn't find any setting to tell the computer what profile to use.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no policy file on the local machine, that is taken from the server.

 

[Zelandakh]

My Computer properties, User profiles and check if each user is set as local or roaming. If it is roaming uncheck the cached box which should update the profile to the server.

 

[DanM]

When I check the profile list on the machines there are alot of entries that says account deleted and they are all set to local.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also the policy for each user says that the profile should be removed at logoff, but this is not happening.&nbsp;&nbsp;We'll have folders in the profile directory on the machine listed : user, user.000, user.001&nbsp;&nbsp;etc...&nbsp;&nbsp;I have seen up to 18 on the same user!&nbsp;&nbsp;If you look under the folder the profile is right it's just not applied to the system.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a really strange problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;

 

[DanM]

I found something very interesting concerning this problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;I found several entries in <br>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentConfiguaration\profilelist<br><br>These entries are grayed out and cannot be deleted or accessed by the administrator.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I exported the registry, this key was exported as an empty key.&nbsp;&nbsp;Does anyone have any idea how to get access to these keys?