local profiles on wks when changing wks domains.

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I am collapsing some nt domains into a central windows 2000 ad domain.
Most of my users have local profiles on the wks they have.

What is the best (space, time, error free) way to use the same profile
using a new user (with same name) in a new domain.

So I have user1 in olddomain (nt4) who sits at computer1 and has a profile
in documents & settings called user1.
I create a user1 in my newdomain (2000ad) and log in with
newdomain\user1.
I now have user1 & user1.newdomain in documents & settings.

What is the best way to get newdomain\user1 to use olddomain\user1 profile
on computer1 after computer1 membership is moved to newdomain.


I was thinking that i just log in with administrator account, and while
changing the domain membership, i would copy the profile and "permitted to
use" the newdomain\user1. Is their any way to allow newdomain\user1 to use
the olddomain\user1 profile without copying it? Is their any easier way?
Does this way have problems?

Thanks for any input.

 

[Herb Martin]

Consider USMT from the MS website. User State Migration Tool.

 

[BrianK]

Depending on your OS, you can copy over the local profile to the domain
profile via the GUI.

HTH,
BrianK