TroyHrehirchuk
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Win2k profiles are not deleted when user logs off subsequent logins create user.domainname.000
When the user logs in and then logs out again say "troyh" in documents and setting there is another profile directory that get created. Upon investigating the origanial troyh profile directory ntuser.pol file remains as the only singular file in the directory c:\documents and setting\troyh. The security tab reveals that the ntuser.pol file has permissions of read for admins group and full control for the user. How do I fix this I know its a local policy that is causing this but don't know were to change it to fix this problem. If I log out and then in a few more times the directory that is created is troyh.domainname.001 and so on. I have scene as high as 25 of these profiles. It does not concern me that is takes up HD space but it is an annoyance when some of the settings do not follow the user because of this.
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I'am not sure I understand you PeteLong are you saying that there will always be a profile in documents and settings of which the extension is 000,001,002,003 and so on of course this is the number that trails after the username.domainname.XXX...
this is normal, as PeteLong stated, I guess you're using roaming profiles, If it's really an annoyance for you, just make sure that the troubling client logs off and delete all profiles from the local computer (not from the server) and login again. This behaviour is caused by a user who logs in at different computers at the same time. Ask the troubling user not to do so, or give him a different account for his other computer (if he uses more than 1 computer)
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Dimante is just to carify that is a local computer policy correct...
You can set it at the domain level or local machine.
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Just add a logoff script that deletes %userprofile%\*.* and remove directory %userprofile%. It may also be prudent to whack the user SID key out of HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Wi
Or you can just set a group policy and it will do all that for you ;-)
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From what I read it sounded like the group policy was supposed to do this, but for some reason it was leaving behind enough to make a new profile every time they log in. When policy fails, its time to do it manually.
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okay I have set the two policys first is not to cache any copies of the profile second is to delete the copies that are actually there when the user logs out. When the policy is put into effect does this also delete the registry entry for that login account?
Yes, it does the equivilent of delprof which removes the reg entry also =-)
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