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[Guest]

A user has been logging into the server via Terminal Services as user MyUser
and her profile has been MyUser within Documents and Settings. Now all of a
sudden whenever she logs in, the server creates MyUser.Domain. She loses her
desktop and everything else. If I delete MyUser.Domain, W2000 just creates it
again. I can't fool it into using MyUser by renaming MyUser.Domain. Other
users are not affected and continue to use their own folders without the
dot-domain. Can anyone tell me what happened? Thanks...

 

[John John]

It sounds like her profile is corrupt or her permissions on her profile
folder has been removed. Try here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314045/

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
to the new folder.

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=corrupt+profile

John

 

[Guest]

John John -

So far I've checked that MyUser has full control of her Profile folder. I
also Edited her User Profile in the Registry to remove the "Home" from
MyUser.Home. I even tried restarting the server after those steps. However,
the server still creates MyUser.Home each time it logs her on and places
dot-home on her User Profile in registry. Next I will try to drop her as a
server user and re-create her, but that's only guessing. While I try that,
maybe you have another idea what's going on.
Thanks...Richard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You may have to change her profile location in the registry:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

 

[John John]

It seems to point to her profile being corrupt. You can easily verify
that by creating a temporary new user and copying her profile to the new
user. If the problem persist's with the new temp user then the profile
is corrupt.

To determine if the profile is corrupt:

1. Create a new temporary account and assign it the same rights and
group membership as the suspect account.

2. Logon as the new temporary user.

3. Log off and log on with administrative privileges.

4. Open Control Panel / System / User Profiles.

5. Select the suspect profile and press Copy To.

6. Press the Browse button and select the new temporary account in the
Documents and Settings folder.

7. Press OK.

8. Press Change under Permitted to use and set the appropriate permissions.

9. Press OK.

10. Log off and log on as the new temporary user.

If you experience the same suspect behavior, the profile is corrupt.

[End quote]

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=8214

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
only to the new profile.

John

 

[Guest]

Dear John John,

Based on your advice, I assumed the profile had become corrupt. I renamed
it, created a new MyUser profile and carefully copied folders and files into
the new profile. This now works, except for a problem that is not the topic
of this board, but I'll mention it just in case someone has a thought. It is
MyUser's Outlook. It created a new Outlook1.pst as the default, and I can't
get rid of that and attach instead the original Outlook.pst. In the process
I've created extra mail folders that i can't get rid of and it is a real
mess. The questions seem to be:

1. How to get rid of the unwanted personal mail folders.
2. How to attach the original outlook.pst datafile, use it as the default
and get rid of the outlook1.pst default.

Thanks for your help on the original problem.

Richard

It seems to point to her profile being corrupt. You can easily verify
that by creating a temporary new user and copying her profile to the new
user. If the problem persist's with the new temp user then the profile
is corrupt.

To determine if the profile is corrupt:

1. Create a new temporary account and assign it the same rights and
group membership as the suspect account.

2. Logon as the new temporary user.

3. Log off and log on with administrative privileges.

4. Open Control Panel / System / User Profiles.

5. Select the suspect profile and press Copy To.

6. Press the Browse button and select the new temporary account in the
Documents and Settings folder.

7. Press OK.

8. Press Change under Permitted to use and set the appropriate permissions.

9. Press OK.

10. Log off and log on as the new temporary user.

If you experience the same suspect behavior, the profile is corrupt.

[End quote]

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=8214

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
only to the new profile.

John

John John -

So far I've checked that MyUser has full control of her Profile folder. I
also Edited her User Profile in the Registry to remove the "Home" from
MyUser.Home. I even tried restarting the server after those steps. However,
the server still creates MyUser.Home each time it logs her on and places
dot-home on her User Profile in registry. Next I will try to drop her as a
server user and re-create her, but that's only guessing. While I try that,
maybe you have another idea what's going on.
Thanks...Richard

:

 

[John John]

You're welcome. My knowledge about Outlook is very limited, someone
else will have to help you with that, all I can do is suggest reading here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195719

You may want to start a new thread on this or ask in a group that deals
with Outlook issues.

John

Dear John John,

Based on your advice, I assumed the profile had become corrupt. I renamed
it, created a new MyUser profile and carefully copied folders and files into
the new profile. This now works, except for a problem that is not the topic
of this board, but I'll mention it just in case someone has a thought. It is
MyUser's Outlook. It created a new Outlook1.pst as the default, and I can't
get rid of that and attach instead the original Outlook.pst. In the process
I've created extra mail folders that i can't get rid of and it is a real
mess. The questions seem to be:

1. How to get rid of the unwanted personal mail folders.
2. How to attach the original outlook.pst datafile, use it as the default
and get rid of the outlook1.pst default.

Thanks for your help on the original problem.

Richard

:

It seems to point to her profile being corrupt. You can easily verify
that by creating a temporary new user and copying her profile to the new
user. If the problem persist's with the new temp user then the profile
is corrupt.

To determine if the profile is corrupt:

1. Create a new temporary account and assign it the same rights and
group membership as the suspect account.

2. Logon as the new temporary user.

3. Log off and log on with administrative privileges.

4. Open Control Panel / System / User Profiles.

5. Select the suspect profile and press Copy To.

6. Press the Browse button and select the new temporary account in the
Documents and Settings folder.

7. Press OK.

8. Press Change under Permitted to use and set the appropriate permissions.

9. Press OK.

10. Log off and log on as the new temporary user.

If you experience the same suspect behavior, the profile is corrupt.

[End quote]

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=8214

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
only to the new profile.

John

John John -

So far I've checked that MyUser has full control of her Profile folder. I
also Edited her User Profile in the Registry to remove the "Home" from
MyUser.Home. I even tried restarting the server after those steps. However,
the server still creates MyUser.Home each time it logs her on and places
dot-home on her User Profile in registry. Next I will try to drop her as a
server user and re-create her, but that's only guessing. While I try that,
maybe you have another idea what's going on.
Thanks...Richard

:



It sounds like her profile is corrupt or her permissions on her profile
folder has been removed. Try here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314045/

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
to the new folder.

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=corrupt+profile

John

richardb wrote:



A user has been logging into the server via Terminal Services as user MyUser
and her profile has been MyUser within Documents and Settings. Now all of a
sudden whenever she logs in, the server creates MyUser.Domain. She loses her
desktop and everything else. If I delete MyUser.Domain, W2000 just creates it
again. I can't fool it into using MyUser by renaming MyUser.Domain. Other
users are not affected and continue to use their own folders without the
dot-domain. Can anyone tell me what happened? Thanks...

 

[Guest]

John John --

Although I fixed first the problem by creating a new Profile, now three more
users have lost their profiles, presumably because they are unreadable
(corrupt). Do you have any idea what might be causing this? In the original
problem profile I found a couple of unreadable files with excessively long
names that woundn't copy, but don't remember now where they were (sorry). Any
further thoughts? Thanks...
Richard

It seems to point to her profile being corrupt. You can easily verify
that by creating a temporary new user and copying her profile to the new
user. If the problem persist's with the new temp user then the profile
is corrupt.

To determine if the profile is corrupt:

1. Create a new temporary account and assign it the same rights and
group membership as the suspect account.

2. Logon as the new temporary user.

3. Log off and log on with administrative privileges.

4. Open Control Panel / System / User Profiles.

5. Select the suspect profile and press Copy To.

6. Press the Browse button and select the new temporary account in the
Documents and Settings folder.

7. Press OK.

8. Press Change under Permitted to use and set the appropriate permissions.

9. Press OK.

10. Log off and log on as the new temporary user.

If you experience the same suspect behavior, the profile is corrupt.

[End quote]

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=8214

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
only to the new profile.

John

John John -

So far I've checked that MyUser has full control of her Profile folder. I
also Edited her User Profile in the Registry to remove the "Home" from
MyUser.Home. I even tried restarting the server after those steps. However,
the server still creates MyUser.Home each time it logs her on and places
dot-home on her User Profile in registry. Next I will try to drop her as a
server user and re-create her, but that's only guessing. While I try that,
maybe you have another idea what's going on.
Thanks...Richard

:

 

[John John]

Hmmm. Failing hard drive maybe? If those profiles are long established
and were working properly for a good while they shouldn't all be failing
all of a sudden. Did you add new software or security fixes before this
started? Make sure that "Everyone" has permissions on the folder.
Maybe someone else has an answer or further suggestions.

John

John John --

Although I fixed first the problem by creating a new Profile, now three more
users have lost their profiles, presumably because they are unreadable
(corrupt). Do you have any idea what might be causing this? In the original
problem profile I found a couple of unreadable files with excessively long
names that woundn't copy, but don't remember now where they were (sorry). Any
further thoughts? Thanks...
Richard

:

It seems to point to her profile being corrupt. You can easily verify
that by creating a temporary new user and copying her profile to the new
user. If the problem persist's with the new temp user then the profile
is corrupt.

To determine if the profile is corrupt:

1. Create a new temporary account and assign it the same rights and
group membership as the suspect account.

2. Logon as the new temporary user.

3. Log off and log on with administrative privileges.

4. Open Control Panel / System / User Profiles.

5. Select the suspect profile and press Copy To.

6. Press the Browse button and select the new temporary account in the
Documents and Settings folder.

7. Press OK.

8. Press Change under Permitted to use and set the appropriate permissions.

9. Press OK.

10. Log off and log on as the new temporary user.

If you experience the same suspect behavior, the profile is corrupt.

[End quote]

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=8214

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
only to the new profile.

John

John John -

So far I've checked that MyUser has full control of her Profile folder. I
also Edited her User Profile in the Registry to remove the "Home" from
MyUser.Home. I even tried restarting the server after those steps. However,
the server still creates MyUser.Home each time it logs her on and places
dot-home on her User Profile in registry. Next I will try to drop her as a
server user and re-create her, but that's only guessing. While I try that,
maybe you have another idea what's going on.
Thanks...Richard

:



It sounds like her profile is corrupt or her permissions on her profile
folder has been removed. Try here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314045/

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and then copy her data files
to the new folder.

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=corrupt+profile

John

richardb wrote:



A user has been logging into the server via Terminal Services as user MyUser
and her profile has been MyUser within Documents and Settings. Now all of a
sudden whenever she logs in, the server creates MyUser.Domain. She loses her
desktop and everything else. If I delete MyUser.Domain, W2000 just creates it
again. I can't fool it into using MyUser by renaming MyUser.Domain. Other
users are not affected and continue to use their own folders without the
dot-domain. Can anyone tell me what happened? Thanks...