Renaming roaming profiles

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phil.bec

We need to rename everyones novell login id
but we find that the windows 2000 roaming profile stops
working .
Any ideas what we need to do when renaming
the Novell login id, as we can rename the network
profile, but not the local one and then we find
the roaming profles stop working
 
The key to you issue is how windows stores and finds you profiles. If you
rename the user then it will continue to use the correct local profile. This
is due to the Profilelist registry entry that maps the users SID to the
local profile directory. If you rename the local then you need the change
the profileimagepath in the registry entry. If the Local profile store is
good and the roaming profile is empty then it will copy the info up. This
will work in the reverse as well.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
 
The key to you issue is how windows stores and finds you profiles. If you
rename the user then it will continue to use the correct local profile. This
is due to the Profilelist registry entry that maps the users SID to the
local profile directory. If you rename the local then you need the change
the profileimagepath in the registry entry. If the Local profile store is
good and the roaming profile is empty then it will copy the info up. This
will work in the reverse as well.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
 
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