We get a problem where the workstation creates a new
profile for and existing user - ie local administrator
account, and stores the new profile under c:\documents and
settings/%username%.000 so when the user logs in again all
of their files, desktop etc are stored under the old
profile, and as such the user can not access them.

Does anyone know what causes this? I have had a look
around the MS support pages and there is no info about
that i can find, also had a look on the internet.

Thanks.

Hi,

XP will create a profile for each user. If a user name is
the same but the security context is different (i.e. a
Administrator user from the TEST domain and a
Administrator from the PRODUCTION domain) then they are
differentiated by the suffix.

Logging on again should not cause you to lose your
settings. Are you saying that if you log on with the same
user twice then you get a default blank desktop each
time ?

Do you use roaming profiles ?
Anything in the eventlogs ?

Regards,

Tim

>-----Original Message-----
>We get a problem where the workstation creates a new
>profile for and existing user - ie local administrator
>account, and stores the new profile under c:\documents
and
>settings/%username%.000 so when the user logs in again
all
>of their files, desktop etc are stored under the old
>profile, and as such the user can not access them.
>
>Does anyone know what causes this? I have had a look
>around the MS support pages and there is no info about
>that i can find, also had a look on the internet.
>
>Thanks.
>.
>

Hi,

We don't use an active directory domian or roaming
profiles. These workstations are a member of a workgroup,
using Novell as file sharing, but with no remote desktop
managment system in place (ie zenworks)

When the user logs on they get the default XP desktop each
time - regardless of what changes were made last time they
logged on becasue a new profile is created:

ie. user has logged on 3 times, the workatation will have
3 profiles for that user - user.000, user.001, user.002.
So when user logs on for the 3rd time they will see the
desktop, settings and my documents stored under the
profile user.002.

This is an ocasional problem, and i am assuming it doesn't
relate to the novell client as it happens if the user logs
onto the novell client or not.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>XP will create a profile for each user. If a user name is
>the same but the security context is different (i.e. a
>Administrator user from the TEST domain and a
>Administrator from the PRODUCTION domain) then they are
>differentiated by the suffix.
>
>Logging on again should not cause you to lose your
>settings. Are you saying that if you log on with the same
>user twice then you get a default blank desktop each
>time ?
>
>Do you use roaming profiles ?
>Anything in the eventlogs ?
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>We get a problem where the workstation creates a new
>>profile for and existing user - ie local administrator
>>account, and stores the new profile under c:\documents
>and
>>settings/%username%.000 so when the user logs in again
>all
>>of their files, desktop etc are stored under the old
>>profile, and as such the user can not access them.
>>
>>Does anyone know what causes this? I have had a look
>>around the MS support pages and there is no info about
>>that i can find, also had a look on the internet.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>.
>>
>.
>