Does anyone know why the user profile copy process does
not copy access priviliges also. I'm copy a "local"
profile to an AD user profile on an XP worksation. The
copy works and the desktop display settings, desktop
folders etc..all copy over fine. But I lose access
priviliges to the local folder structure. The only work
around I have so far is to assign "administrator"
priviliges to the new AD profile, which get me around the
problem. A bit harsh though to have to resort to assining
a high level access privilige. Any other ideas?

I have a similar problem. I have two profiles one a domain profile and the
other is a local profile. I am trying to copy over the local profile to the
domain profile using the copy to.. function. The copy over starts but it
gives me a message that says that a file called desktop.ini cannot be moved
from local profile to the domain profile die to access rights. I checked all
the right and everything is fine. I changed the permissions of the local
profile so that Everyone has full control of it. Plus I also changed the
permission of that file that the message comes up for..I changed so that
everyone has full control of it. When the message comes up it stays for about
20 seconds and goes away and the copy over funtion stops. I went back and
noticed that only half of the profile was copied over. I log on as myself
using my domain ID and I have admin rights on the domain. Let me know what to
do. Thanks.

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Does anyone know why the user profile copy process does
> not copy access priviliges also. I'm copy a "local"
> profile to an AD user profile on an XP worksation. The
> copy works and the desktop display settings, desktop
> folders etc..all copy over fine. But I lose access
> priviliges to the local folder structure. The only work
> around I have so far is to assign "administrator"
> priviliges to the new AD profile, which get me around the
> problem. A bit harsh though to have to resort to assining
> a high level access privilige. Any other ideas?
>

Asif Shah wrote:

> I have a similar problem. I have two profiles one a domain profile and the
> other is a local profile. I am trying to copy over the local profile to the
> domain profile using the copy to.. function. The copy over starts but it
> gives me a message that says that a file called desktop.ini cannot be moved
> from local profile to the domain profile die to access rights. I checked all
> the right and everything is fine. I changed the permissions of the local
> profile so that Everyone has full control of it. Plus I also changed the
> permission of that file that the message comes up for..I changed so that
> everyone has full control of it. When the message comes up it stays for about
> 20 seconds and goes away and the copy over funtion stops. I went back and
> noticed that only half of the profile was copied over. I log on as myself
> using my domain ID and I have admin rights on the domain. Let me know what to
> do. Thanks.
Hi

Instead of copying the profile files, try this instead:

We solve this by (in the registry) changing the profile path for
the new user to point to the old user's profile folder (the user
needs to log on at least once first).


From: Bruce Sanderson ((E-Mail Removed))
Subject: Re: Moving a W2K PC between domains
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Date: 2002-08-05 17:32:49 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40tkmsftngp08

If the user is not a local admin, you might need to to something on the
permission side. Use tip 4631 and 2240 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at
http://www.jsiinc.com as a guide.


More here as well:

Subject: Re: Lost profile when domain name changes
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=262e40881c856d53


HOW TO: Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;en-us;314045

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