Domain Account profile pointing to local account

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Hi,

I am adding several machines to our domain. I did the registry hack
to point the domain profile to the old local account profile. The
local account was a local admin but the domain account cannot be.
This appears to be causing all kinds of strange problems. When
opening any office app, it asks for initials everytime, and will not
store settings like macro level. You cannot change views like
changing control panel to classic view. Some apps will not even run.
The domain acct has FULL CONTROl of the local acct profile directory
tree as well as having that account take ownership. When I run
effective permissions, Windows says that it cannot figure it out.
Adding the domain account to the local admins groups on the local
machine alleviates all these issues but we do not want these accounts
to have this privelege level.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Kevin
 
KDawg44 said:
Hi,

I am adding several machines to our domain. I did the registry hack
to point the domain profile to the old local account profile. The
local account was a local admin but the domain account cannot be.
This appears to be causing all kinds of strange problems. When
opening any office app, it asks for initials everytime, and will not
store settings like macro level. You cannot change views like
changing control panel to classic view. Some apps will not even run.
The domain acct has FULL CONTROl of the local acct profile directory
tree as well as having that account take ownership. When I run
effective permissions, Windows says that it cannot figure it out.
Adding the domain account to the local admins groups on the local
machine alleviates all these issues but we do not want these accounts
to have this privelege level.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Kevin
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I would undo the registry hack.
 
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Thank you for your advice however, I am trying to avoid that. Since
this has to be done on many machines, I was hoping to avoid moving
data from one profile to the next. My hope is to find out WHY this is
happening and if there is a fix. I know that I can undo the registry
hack and just move data, which would be fine on a couple machines/
accounts but this is going to grow.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Kevin
 
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