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Windows cannot locate Roaming Profile

I am an IT Administrator for a school and we recently implemented Roaming Profiles. We are using Windows XP Pro ont the workstations and Windows 2003 Server.

They were working fine for sometime until recenctly I started to receive the error message below:

"Windows cannot locate your roaming profile (read only) and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Possbile causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. Please contact your network administrator."

I have a folder on the root of the local drive on the server called "Shared Folders" within this folder is the folder used to store the profiles. This folder is simply entitled "Profiles$."

I use VBS script to create a new user within AD which automatically assigns the profile path \\reocstudent\profiles$\username. Everytime a new user logs on for the first time their profile is suppose to take a copy of a "Default User" I have stored in NetLegon.

I have tried every NTFS permission combination to the local drive, shared folders and profile$ folder to no avail. I have even tried creating a user with full administrator rights to see if that would make a difference and it doesn't.

What happens is Windows will load a copy of the "Default User" from Netlogon but it won't create it to the Profiles$ folder or save it back when you log off.

It seems NTFS permission related. I have tried giving full control to the various groups and that still doesn't help. Any ideas would be very much appreciated!

Jane F.

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Have your VBS script also add the folder in the profiels$ share.

Also profiles$ indicates an addmin share and may be the problem

the path should be \\reocstudent\profiles\username

eb

markandrew21

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Title: Setting up Roaming Profile in Windows Server 2003 in Group Policy
asked by tomranson on 10/26/2004 06:52AM PDT
This solution was worth 500 Points and received a grade of A


Hi

I am trying to setup a profile for Terminal Servers. In a group policy I have specified the profile path and the user has full access.

However whenever a user logs on I get the following error:

"Windows cannot locate your roaming profile (Read Only) and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. The system cannot find the specified file"

I want to be able to set the profile path in the group policy rather than on the user access itself. Anyone had any dealings with this?

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Comment from Chris-Dent
Date: 10/26/2004 07:50AM PDT
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The user must be the owner of the profile if that's not set at the moment.

To add adminsitrative access you should use the Policy:

Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System
User Profiles

Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles

Accepted Answer from rhandels
Date: 10/26/2004 08:27AM PDT
Grade: A
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Hi,

Another small note, don't create the profile folder on the network. The folder should be created automaticaly by user (this happens when he first logs off). This way the proper permissions are set on the folder. The admin cannot be the owner nor have any permissions to the folder.

janemferris

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I have tried all of the various suggestions, thank you! None have worked though.

Below is a copy of the VBS script we created to add a new user to AD. I am curious about ebjers suggestion about modifying the VBS script to add the folder to the profile$ share. Any suggestions?

objConnection.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & strPathtoTextFile & ";" & _
"Extended Properties=""text;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited"""

objRecordset.Open "SELECT * FROM UserInput.csv", _
objConnection, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdText

ctr = 0
Do Until objRecordset.EOF
strUserNamecn = "cn=" & objRecordset.Fields.Item("UserName")
strUserID = objRecordset.Fields("UserID")
strFirstName = objRecordset.Fields("FirstName")
strLastName = objRecordset.Fields("LastName")
strProfile = "\\reocstudent\profiles$\" & strUserID
dtmExpDate = objRecordset.Fields("ExpDate")
Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", strUserNamecn)
objUser.Put "sAMAccountName", strUserID
objUser.Put "givenName", strFirstName
objUser.Put "sn", strLastName
objUser.Put "displayName", strFirstName & " " & strLastName
objUser.Put "profilePath", strProfile
objUser.Put "title", "Student"
objUser.Put "pwdLastSet", 0
objUser.AccountExpirationDate = dtmExpDate
objUser.SetInfo
objUser.AccountDisabled = False
objUser.SetInfo
objGroup.Add objUser.ADSPath
objRecordset.MoveNext
ctr = ctr+1
Loop

WScript.Echo ctr & " users added to the directory"

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