New Profile Created Every Logon

[Guest]

A laptop running XP Pro needs to logon to two indepoendant domain controllers
on the same network. I have a different account on each DC: FredA and FredB.

The DC of DomainA is the Operations Master.

When I logon to DomainA the profile used is \Documents and
Settings\FredA.DomainA. No problem. But when I logon to the other DC of
DomainB a new profile is created every time at \Documents and
Settings\FredB.DomainB.001

If I go to the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList I
see the value of ProfileImagePath has also be changed to \Documents and
Settings\FredB.DomainB.001. Modifying this value has no effect the next time
I logon to DomainB; a new profile is created. If I don't modify the value,
the next time I logon another new profile is created: \Documents and
Settings\FredB.DomainB.002

If I look at My Network from either domain, the laptop always shows up on
the DomainA tree and never the DomainB tree.

What's wrong? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Here's the answer to my own question!

Apparantly, Microsoft has limited the number of 'fixed' profiles in XP to
two. Assuming one has to be 'Administrator' this leaves only one other
'fixed' profile available. So, each time a user logs-on to a new domain with
a new name a new 'non-fixed' profile is created.

If this explanation is incorrect can someone in the XP team please elucidate?