I ahve setup roaming profiles on our new SBS 2003 server by making a shared profiles directory a putting the user names in their with the require permissions adding the correct data into the users profile to point to the file and attempted to log in only to get a permissions error. I have even tried allowing everyone full access to the folders and still are getting the same error.
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Just to be clear, you will not need to copy anything to this new shared directory, the next time the user logs in, the users local profile will automatically be copied to the new location, creating a new folder with the users name as its name, and permissions set up so that only the user can access it.
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by: Drizzt420Posted on 2004-06-02 at 01:13:57ID: 11210196
I have not worked with Server 2003 alot but if roaming profiles are like they were in windows 2000 (probably a safe bet) then you shouldnt have to go through the trouble of setting alot of permisions...
Create a folder to contain all of the profiles on your server, name it what ever you want, we will say "profiles" is the name of the folder (the share name also) and "server1" is the name of the server.
Right click on a user in Active Directory users and Computers, choose proerties and the profiles tab, in my example you would type:
\\server1\profiles\%userna
type it exactly like that, DO NOT type in the users name. leave the share permisisions wide open if you wish, because the %username% will create the users profile with permissions that grant only them the right to view it (even the Enterprise admin would have to take ownership before he/she could read it)
Since the My Documents folder is part of the users profile now you will want to consider using folder redirection on the My documents folder so that it is not passed back and forth acrossed the network at every log-on and log-off