Login failure?

[Bebbspoke]

I have just attempted to post this question and your website bombed out.
I am administrator on a 2pc 5-user home net. Win XP Pro (x32) SP3 all updated.
Use Classic logins via to indiviual user hard drives - (far more secure than
Xp's "quick-swap" logins). Has worked fine for months/years. Fault solely on
Master pc (Dell 5100 3.2GHz) - System only recognises Administrator and ONE
user although all are present in C\Documents and Settings\name. System
refuses access to normal path and attempts to create new desktop etc
C\Documents and Settings\name.000 - this is certainly not required.... Please
Help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have just attempted to post this question and your website bombed
out.

I am administrator on a 2pc 5-user home net. Win XP Pro (x32) SP3
all updated. Use Classic logins via to indiviual user hard drives -
(far more secure than Xp's "quick-swap" logins). Has worked fine
for months/years. Fault solely on Master pc (Dell 5100 3.2GHz) -
System only recognises Administrator and ONE user although all are
present in C\Documents and Settings\name. System refuses access to
normal path and attempts to create new desktop etc C\Documents and
Settings\name.000 - this is certainly not required.... Please Help.

What "website"?
Many people post to these newsgroups with no knowledge of any 'website' -
although there are many that may allow one to post a message to these
newsgroups. In other words, your accusation, "I have just attempted to post
this question and your website bombed out." leaves out a lot of critical
information - such as the website you are specifically referring to. I
personally do not use any web interface to review/respond/post to these
newsgroups, others may use Google Groups, others may use the web interface
Microsoft setup to include their groups, others still may use a web forum
setup by someone else that then posts here for them and synchs the messages
both ways. Please be very detailed if you wish the proper 'your' in your
accusation of failure of a website to be informed of the issue at hand.

What does "Use Classic logins via to indiviual user hard drives" mean?
Cleaning up any natural typing errors, I assume you mean you do not utilize
the Welcome screen logon (hiding the usernames from the perso sitting down
at the computer, at least at face value, unless you have it remembering the
logon of the last user and displaying that in the classic logon prompt - in
which case you have gained no obscurity to speak of either.) You mention
'to individual user hard drives' <-- that could have been a typo (to/two) or
you have hot-swap hard disk drives you put in the machine for each user or
you believe you have somehow physically setup each user so they have their
own physical hard drive within the machine when they logon - although they
all logon to one single computer and anyone of them can easiluy (admin
rights or not) get a list of user names from said machine.

In the end - I think you are describing something you do not understand -
but you come up with the same issue. You have a user with a corrupted user
profile. You *may* be able to fix that profile - but the chances are
against it. You would be better served in just creating a new user profile
for that user and copying the pertinent information from the previous
profile directory (My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, Start Menu, etc... But
not the NTUSER.DAT and so on.)

A profile can become corrupt for many reasons - even bad hardware (a bad
disk drive.) It could be a write did not happen when it should have, or one
happened when it shouldn't have. A third party program, bad RAM, bad
motherboard, etc.

In short - you are seeing the creation of a new profile (the profile
conatins *much* more than just your desktop - C:\Documents and
Settings\name.000, etc) because the original profile has become unloadable
for some reason. The easiest and most reliable solution is to reboot, logon
as another user with administrative rights, rename the old directory for the
bum profile (C:\Documents and Settings\name --> C:\Documents and
Settings\name.old and get rid of (or rename all the .### ones too)) and log
off and log in as the user with the issue. That will create the
C:\Documents and Settings\name (or should, unless the registry ProfileList
has been changed) for said user and then you can copy the user-created files
(not all the rest) safely to that new profile directory from the old and
then delete the old. You will lose the desktop layout and program
settings - but those should be relatively simple to recreate as-needed.

 

[Dan]

I have partialy the same problem. I try to log on but my account says it's
logging on and then before showing me any screen, logs off. please help

 

[Bebbspoke]

To Shenan: - Thank you for your response - "What website?" - the branch of
MS.com where I successfully posted the question at my second attempt - on the
first attempt on clicking "send" an error window came up stating the site was
currently full to capacity and that a resend would be required. Having spent
a considerable time navigating to where I believed was the correct place to
post a question - to have the question refused was somewhat irritating.

I have physically set up each user to have sole use of a specific partition
on one of the two 250G hard disks in the machine. All users are pw protected.
Any user is free to scan and use the system drive (C:\) but each user can
only access their own personal storage partition. Even Administrator is
denied access to individual user partitions. I realize that it is
theoretically possible for users to change ownership of files etc but not
without leaving clear evidence of such action.

So to creating "new" profiles: - "pertinent data" - the most disasterous
loss is that of each individuals Outlook Express information - that is all
recieved and sent emails and all personal addresses - please can you advise
as to how this may be salvaged from each name.old to the relevant newname
profile?

Thank you for your help. John.

 

[Bebbspoke]

To Shenan: - Thank you for your response - "What website?" - the branch of
MS.com where I successfully posted the question at my second attempt - on the
first attempt on clicking "send" an error window came up stating the site was
currently full to capacity and that a resend would be required. Having spent
a considerable time navigating to where I believed was the correct place to
post a question - to have the question refused was somewhat irritating.

I have physically set up each user to have sole use of a specific partition
on one of the two 250G hard disks in the machine. All users are pw protected.
Any user is free to scan and use the system drive (C:\) but each user can
only access their own personal storage partition. Even Administrator is
denied access to individual user partitions. I realize that it is
theoretically possible for users to change ownership of files etc but not
without leaving clear evidence of such action.

So to creating "new" profiles: - "pertinent data" - the most disasterous
loss is that of each individuals Outlook Express information - that is all
recieved and sent emails and all personal addresses - please can you advise
as to how this may be salvaged from each name.old to the relevant newname
profile?

Thank you for you help. John.

 

[Bebbspoke]

To Shenan: - Thank you for your response - "What website?" - the branch of
MS.com where I successfully posted the question at my second attempt - on the
first attempt on clicking "send" an error window came up stating the site was
currently full to capacity and that a resend would be required. Having spent
a considerable time navigating to where I believed was the correct place to
post a question - to have the question refused was somewhat irritating.

I have physically set up each user to have sole use of a specific partition
on one of the two 250G hard disks in the machine. All users are pw protected.
Any user is free to scan and use the system drive (C:\) but each user can
only access their own personal storage partition. Even Administrator is
denied access to individual user partitions. I realize that it is
theoretically possible for users to change ownership of files etc but not
without leaving clear evidence of such action.

So to creating "new" profiles: - "pertinent data" - the most disasterous
loss is that of each individuals Outlook Express information - that is all
recieved and sent emails and all personal addresses - please can you advise
as to how this may be salvaged from each name.old to the relevant newname
profile?

Thank you for you help. John.

 

[Bebbspoke]

To Shenan: - Thank you for your response - "What website?" - the branch of
MS.com where I successfully posted the question at my second attempt - on the
first attempt on clicking "send" an error window came up stating the site was
currently full to capacity and that a resend would be required. Having spent
a considerable time navigating to where I believed was the correct place to
post a question - to have the question refused was somewhat irritating.

I have physically set up each user to have sole use of a specific partition
on one of the two 250G hard disks in the machine. All users are pw protected.
Any user is free to scan and use the system drive (C:\) but each user can
only access their own personal storage partition. Even Administrator is
denied access to individual user partitions. I realize that it is
theoretically possible for users to change ownership of files etc but not
without leaving clear evidence of such action.

So to creating "new" profiles: - "pertinent data" - the most disasterous
loss is that of each individuals Outlook Express information - that is all
recieved and sent emails and all personal addresses - please can you advise
as to how this may be salvaged from each name.old to the relevant newname
profile?

Thank you for you help. John.