Can not locate roaming profiles

[Bill]

I'm not sure if I am posting in the right area if not
please direct me to the correct one. Having a problem
here with Profiles and was wondering if you could help.
We have migrated some users over to our active directory
domain with roaming profiles. The profiles are on an NT 4
server share with full control to everyone. Our users
have no problems signing on to the NT4 domain and
downloading their profile, however when we try to sign
them on to the new domain their profiles will not down
load, it gives you the error unbable to copy file then
profile path. Then is gives you a temporary profile to
use.
If I go take ownership of a profile folder and then give
that user full control of the folder then it will
download. The problem is it takes for ever to take
ownership of the folder because you have to keep
answering yes or take control for every folder and file.
Has anyone had this problem and/or do you know a fix for
it?
Thanks
Bill

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi - all clients will need full control of their profile directories.

What I generally do is to take ownership of the main profiles folder (as the
group "administrators", not the Administrator account), and in advanced,
push it down through all subfolders. Make sure everyone is logged out when
you do this....

Then I set the security as I wish on the main folder - Administrators,
System and Authenticated Users = full control, and push that security down
as well - remove any 'inherit from parent folder' permissions and select
Copy rather than Remove.

I share the profiles folder as profiles$ so it isn't visible via browsing.

 

[Bill]

Thanks for the quick reply. I have taken ownership of the
folder,however this is on a NT4 server and unlike 2000
where I could push it down and remove inhertance, I have
to answer yes to every directory in every profile which
takes forever for each profile in the folder. I had
thought about copying the folder to a 2003 server but ran
into the same problem. Since I have this directory backed
up could I restore it to a 2003 server and then change
the security settings?
Thanks

 

[Richard Moreno]

Hi Bill-

Without going through all that I would recommend using some ResKit tools
like cacls or xcacls to reset\change the perms down the entire directory
tree and avoid the "yes to continue" prompt.

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Thanks,
Richard Moreno
MCSE, MCSA, Server+, Network+

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