profiles

[olocin]

hello everyone,

im having weird problems regarding profiles, when i login to our domain (entity.ph) my local computer creates a profile by default (johndoe), after some time when i login again it creates another profile (johndoe.entity), i didnt recieve any error or corrupted profile notification, this happens to every terminal i managed, would it be the DNS or the local computer that is causing the problem? what i usually do is just delete the newly created profile and restart, it is a long process and i know you guys may know the sollution to this, im running windows 2003 server. any help would be appreciated. Thank you

[tain]

I've seen this happen before when I tried to manually setup profiles...the machines would ignore the profle folder and create a new one with a different name like profile.domain.

Could this be a local vs domain user issue in your domain?

[olocin]

Could this be a local vs domain user issue in your domain? - what do you mean? i didnet quite get it, could you elaborate more? thanks

[tain]

If you have a local machine account that has the same name as a domain account then one of them will get renamed. The first one to be created will be OK, but the second will be profile.localmachinename or profile.domainname.

[RogueSpear]

This happens to users on my network from time to time as well. I deployed the user profile hive cleanup service and that brought it under control, but it does still happen. The worst part is that it wipes out all of the users settings, etc and adopts whatever is in the default user profile. This usually generates a help call where I'm accused of "taking away" a certain program or feature.

I've yet to discover anything in the event logs that would point me to a solution. So far I've just figured it's Microsoft's crappy software.

[olocin]

hello guys thanks for replying,

TAiN

- ic, but we have naming conventions so i dont think that causes the problem.

RogueSpear

- yah you're right it wipes the user setting and adopts the default user profile. ill try the profile hive cleanup service controlling it for sometime will be enough for now .

Finally its getting somewhere. if you have sollutions for this problem please notify me, Thank You