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Old February 8th, 2005, 05:46 AM
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windows 2003 Profile Error
Not sure if i posted this in right channel but neways

Setup Win2003 Server and created Users.
Created a Profiles Folder on the C: and Shared it.

In Active Dir Users & Computers i added the //(servername)/Profiles/%Username%

However everytime i log out of a pc it says "Windows cannot update roaming profile, possible causes of error include network problems or insufficient security rights."

I gave that user full security and permission access to the Profiles folder but still same error. if i type in \\(servername) it allows me to access the profiles folder.

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Old February 8th, 2005, 06:43 AM
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I believe that your brackets are backwards, try '\\(servername)\Profiles\%Username%'.
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I believe that your brackets are backwards, try '\\(servername)\Profiles\%Username%'.


Sorry was a typo....yes i have the correct slashes in there still doesnt work....however i have mapped a drive to \\(servername)\Users\%Username% which works so i dont understand why the profiles doesnt work...maybe some policy issue?
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I am not an admin, but I remember having similiar such problems at a previous job and am working off of memory, so keep that in mind. When the user initially logs on they have no security credentials, so any authentication is done on their behalf via the machine account. If the machine lacks access to the folder then it won't be able to copy the profile. Obviously giving each machine rights to each folder is problematic in an organization of any size so that couldn't have been the solution. I believe that the machine startup account was something besides localadmin or the logon procedure was launched as a central account or something like that. Hopefully others will see your post and provide more meaningful responses.
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To work around this issue, verify that the user has sufficient permissions. At the share level, Full Control permissions are required. This is different from Windows NT 4.0, in which the Change share-level permission is sufficient.

At the NTFS level, the following permissions are required:
List Folder Contents
Read
Write

microsoft Q file 257848
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To work around this issue, verify that the user has sufficient permissions. At the share level, Full Control permissions are required. This is different from Windows NT 4.0, in which the Change share-level permission is sufficient.

At the NTFS level, the following permissions are required:
List Folder Contents
Read
Write

microsoft Q file 257848



I have given a user Full Control of the Profiles folder and created a user folder within that folder and gave them full permissions to that also.....it still doesnt work.....as mentioned i can access the Profiles folder from a remote machine and i can also create new folders etc from that remote machine
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ok you gave them full control at the share level but what did you give them at the NTFS level? also when you go to advanced security make sure you are not inhariting rights from a parent directory.
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