Losing User Settings When Switching To A Domain

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Problem: My computer at the office previously connected to
a corporate workgroup. Recently, we switched to a domain.
When my computer was configured for the domain, I lost all
of my user settings...desktop, start menu, documents, etc.
If I do not log into the domain at startup, and instead
just log onto my local machine, everything comes back.

I have found in "Documents and Settings" a two "user"
folders; one with my orignal user name and the other with
the domain appended (ie, user.DOMAIN). My original
settings are in the plain user folder, and the new
configuration is in the user.DOMAIN folder. Copying one to
the other doesn't seem to work.

So, how can I get my computer back to the configuration I
have customized, but still log onto the new corporate network?

Would appreciate any help with this matter. I can't find
anything like this in the KB.

Thanks!
 
Here here

Same prob dood

An even if you copy entire directory structure over, it dont work....

Can copy some directories, like desktop, but this is crap...

There must be an easy fix for this..........

Reward for he/she whom can help me and other dood...

And anyone say dont use MS blah blah gets a free elbow to the head......

;)
 
Talk to your domain admin he or she might be using mandatory profiles for
users. Are any of your co workers affected?
 
The reason is that Windows considers these two accounts to be
different. One if userid on the machine (user.machine) and the other
is userid on the domain (user.domain). These are NOT the same user as
far as Windows is concerned. You'll notice there are two logon choices
when you start up as well.
I've dealt with this in the past by just copying over the favourites
folder and the My documents folder into the new directory structure
and then NEVER again logging on as machine.userid.
 
Charles Godwin said:
The reason is that Windows considers these two accounts to be
different. One if userid on the machine (user.machine) and the other
is userid on the domain (user.domain). These are NOT the same user as
far as Windows is concerned. You'll notice there are two logon choices
when you start up as well.
I've dealt with this in the past by just copying over the favourites
folder and the My documents folder into the new directory structure
and then NEVER again logging on as machine.userid.
Click to expand...
There's probably a few other directories to copy in addition to these, but
there's also registry entries that may need to transfer over.
When I decided to do a reformat I used the File and Settings transfer wizard
to store old settings before loading them into the new os.
Have you tried this?
All that would worry me about using this method would be losing the domain
settings. Create a restore point before trying.
 
You're right about registry settings and other stuff. I think I also
may have copied desktop and start->programs as well. I didn't go too
far as all I wanted was my settings. There is no perfect solution but
copying some folders will move most of what's needed. It quickly
becomes a matter of diminishing returns.

The point to remember, of course, is that you "can't go back"
 
Right click my computer click properties go to the user
profile tabs. copy the desired profile to the location of
the domain users profile
 
Back
Top