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Windows 2008 R2 onlt allows temp logins

My new windows 2008 R2 server will not create user profiles under the "Users" directory. Instead it logs in users as TEMP.

The test user I am logging in as has domain admin rights and the roaming profile is create fine, (username.V2) but the "USER" profile is TEMP. After making changes and exiting the changes are not kept. Even though the roaming profile is maintained.

I have read all sorts of comments, mainly directed at terminal server sessions. This is not a TS situation and the test is being carried out on the 2008 R2 server itself. I have tried all relevant suggestions to no avail.

Please help

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Phil

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You are probably using the wrong path in the profile field.  Are you using a unc path: \\servername\share\etc....

Seems like you have a typo.
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Hi all,

Thanks for your replies and sorry to be so long in responding

Afer reading your comments I went back and carefully checked for typing errors etc.
Deleted the roaming profile directory and set it all up from scratch to no avail. I was trying the same two
users at this stage.

I decided to go on with setting up all the other users and in so doing had no problems. I doubted the roaming profile thing, but needed to check the system from the start. The problem was always with the local profile, the profile setup under the "users" directory.

Then I delete the two offending users and their profiles. Then set them up from scratch. Now I have no problem and their profiles install under their login names.

Other than some corruption with the user itself, I'm not sure what the problem was. In any case I don't have a problem now.

Thank you all for your comments, while it did not lead directly to a solution, it did make me experiment until a solution found itself.

Regards
Phil


Thanks all problem solved