I need some help with romaing profiles. Im running W2kServer and all the clients are XP Pro machines. I think I have everything setup correctly but when I try to login on the clients, it gives me an erro saying it cannot find the profile on the server. And it says to make sure the user has the correct security rights, but I made the user an administrator. What am I doing wrong?
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W2kServer + Roaming profiles
- Thread starter sethmo
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you have a domain controller and active directory setup right?
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Assuming you've got the domain running with active directory, have you pointed each profile to a user directory (in active directory) and created an actual user directory space on the server? If not, hit google up on how to do this.
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To set up a roaming profile, do this:
1. Create a share, somewhere on the server... "\\server\profiles" is a good place to start.
2. On one of the XP boxes, while logged in as an administrator, go into Start/Settings/Control Panel/System, in the User Profiles tab, select User1, and click Copy To... (you can't be logged in as this user while copying it). Copy it to \\server\profiles\User1. For "Allowed to use", click the browse button and select User1.
3. On the server, in Active Directory Users & Computers, edit User1, in the Profile tab, set the Profile for that user to \\server\profiles\User1
4. Restart the XP machine, and log in as User1.. their profile should now be roaming. You can check this by going back into the User Profiles tab in System Properties, and it should list Roaming.
Step 1 only needs to be done once. If you don't care to copy the profile, step 2 can be skipped, a default profile will be created for them. Restarting is optional, but you must atleast log out & log back in.
1. Create a share, somewhere on the server... "\\server\profiles" is a good place to start.
2. On one of the XP boxes, while logged in as an administrator, go into Start/Settings/Control Panel/System, in the User Profiles tab, select User1, and click Copy To... (you can't be logged in as this user while copying it). Copy it to \\server\profiles\User1. For "Allowed to use", click the browse button and select User1.
3. On the server, in Active Directory Users & Computers, edit User1, in the Profile tab, set the Profile for that user to \\server\profiles\User1
4. Restart the XP machine, and log in as User1.. their profile should now be roaming. You can check this by going back into the User Profiles tab in System Properties, and it should list Roaming.
Step 1 only needs to be done once. If you don't care to copy the profile, step 2 can be skipped, a default profile will be created for them. Restarting is optional, but you must atleast log out & log back in.
