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[Guest]

Have a user that when she logs unto the domain on a certain computer her
profile gets created everytime. Log off and back on as administrator then log
back on as that user....profile gets created once again.

If I do the same thing on a different computer with the same
user...everythings is fine, the profile stays.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Have a user that when she logs unto the domain on a certain computer her
profile gets created everytime. Log off and back on as administrator then log
back on as that user....profile gets created once again.

If I do the same thing on a different computer with the same
user...everythings is fine, the profile stays.

You need to be a little more specific: Does her profile folder
get deleted and recreated each time, or does she get a different
profile folder each time she logs on?

 

[Guest]

Her profile folder gets deleted and recreated everytime...only on that
computer. But not loged in as an admin ( If I log in, it doesn't happen)

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Her profile folder gets deleted and recreated everytime...only on that
computer. But not loged in as an admin ( If I log in, it doesn't
happen)

Check in the event log. And check in c:\documents and settings\ on that
computer to make sure you don't see a bunch of different username folders
for her.
Does this happen when she logs into another computer?
Are you using roaming profiles?

 

[Guest]

Only one folder (profile) gets created everytime. It seems her profile gets
deleted and recreated everytime. It does not happen on any other PC though.

And to my knowledege we are not using roaming profiles. If I log in as
admin, the profile does not get created everytime. Only with her login and
only on this XP machine.

 

[Guest]

Only one folder created for her profile and it gets deleted everytime you log
in as a different user on that machine and then log back in as her. If she
logs into another computer, the profile stays and doesn't get recreated. So I
narrowed it down to only this machine, only for her login.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

This happens by design for users who are members of
the Guest group.

 

[Guest]

This user is not a member of guest though

This happens by design for users who are members of
the Guest group.

 

[Guest]

IS there anything else I can look for besides wiping the machine clean and
starting over?

 

[Guest]

Is there anything else I can look for besides wiping the machine clean and
starting over?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Does this happen to all users on her machine or only to this
particular user?

Is this a recent problem? If so then System Restore may be
an easy solution.

 

[Guest]

Any user that is not an admin. this is a recent problem and system restore
works but........after the restore I still have the same issue. Log off as
user, log in as admin, log back in as user...profile gets recreated....bizarre

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

are the profile setup as "roaming profiles" ?

Any user that is not an admin. this is a recent problem and system restore
works but........after the restore I still have the same issue. Log off as
user, log in as admin, log back in as user...profile gets recreated....bizarre

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You say the profile folder gets recreated on the next logon.
Does it actually get deleted during the logoff? If not, how
do you know that it gets recreated?

 

[Guest]

no

are the profile setup as "roaming profiles" ?

 

[Guest]

it gets deleted and when I log back in as her, it says creating profile and
setting up IE, and I have to setup outlook, etc.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

What you describe agrees with the way members of the
"Guest" group are treated, even though you claim she is
not a member of that group.

As a work-around, promote her to a local administrator
by running this command while you're logged on as a domain
administratoor:

net localgroup administrators "Domain users" /add

 

[Guest]

That's what I orginally thought also. I added her as a local administrator
and once I logged in as her, it created another profile called (Sally 1) and
this time it keeps the profile when I log off and back on...very strange.