Domains and profiles

[Jim]

When I join another domain, logon causes another profile in documents and
settings to be used.

For example: If I join domain "ABC", after rebooting, and after domain
login, I find myself logged in using the profile for "userid.ABC" instead of
"userid".

All access to email, my documents, etc., is unavailable. Sure, I can move
documents (if I have admin) from the old folders to the new, but email
(Outlook) is something else. And if I do this regularly, then it becomes
very difficult and time consuming to handle anyway. "Shared" documents
won't deal with email/news "identities."

Is there a way to use the same profile when I change domains? I understand
the issue with SID's and networked file systems, but this is a local hard
drive.

Anybody have any advice?

Jim

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

When I join another domain, logon causes another profile in documents and
settings to be used.

For example: If I join domain "ABC", after rebooting, and after domain
login, I find myself logged in using the profile for "userid.ABC" instead of
"userid".

All access to email, my documents, etc., is unavailable. Sure, I can move
documents (if I have admin) from the old folders to the new, but email
(Outlook) is something else. And if I do this regularly, then it becomes
very difficult and time consuming to handle anyway. "Shared" documents
won't deal with email/news "identities."

Is there a way to use the same profile when I change domains? I understand
the issue with SID's and networked file systems, but this is a local hard
drive.

Anybody have any advice?

Hi

You can reuse the old profile with the "new" user by changing the new
user's ProfileImagePath in registry to point to the old profile.

More here:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

 

[Jim]

Hi

You can reuse the old profile with the "new" user by changing the new
user's ProfileImagePath in registry to point to the old profile.

More here:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Hi. Thanks for responding.

It seemed to be a good idea so I tried it, but it, unfortunately, didn't
work. I ended up with another new profile folder "userid.ABC.000" and it
overlayed the value in the proflist entry that I changed to the same value.

I also notice that XP Pro only keeps the local machine and the current
domain value in the logon prompt for domain. My recollection for 2000 pro
is that it would rememeber each domain joined. It certainly worked that way
in NT.

What am I missing here?

 

[Roger Abell]

Hi. Thanks for responding.

It seemed to be a good idea so I tried it, but it, unfortunately, didn't
work. I ended up with another new profile folder "userid.ABC.000" and it
overlayed the value in the proflist entry that I changed to the same value.

I also notice that XP Pro only keeps the local machine and the current
domain value in the logon prompt for domain. My recollection for 2000 pro
is that it would rememeber each domain joined. It certainly worked that way
in NT.

What am I missing here?

Actually, it did not work that way in W2k nor NT.
If there were domain trusts, then more than one domain
could be shown, otherwise only the one in which the
machine is a member.

It is possible that Torgeir's suggestion did not work in
your case due to the NTFS permissions on the profile
not allowing the new account to use the old profile