Copy local user files & settings to new domain account - How?

[amitech]

Sorry, this must win an award for stupidity.
I am taking an an existing workgroup XP Pro machine over to a Win 2k domain. The original local user wants to move his desktop links, and original files over to to his new user account when logged onto the domain - some of them he'll keep locally e.g. not on the server.

I thought I could be smart and (as administrator) just rename his original directory to username.domainname in the Documents and Settings folder, however that dosent work, all I get is an empty user profile/desktop instead.

So there has to be a easy way to do this?
Please advise me,

Many thanks,

Jim.

 

[wolluf]

Windows will always create a new profile for a domain user.

Will you be giving him a roaming profile for his domain user - or will it just be creating a local profile?

If its going to be local, I would just let windows create new profile & then copy the relevant bits from the existing local account profile.

If roaming, you can use the copyto profile feature (system properties, advanced tab, user profiles button) to copy the existing local profile to server location of roaming profile. You could also use this feature to copy it locally (ie, rename profile back to 'username' - hopefully Windows will still pick it up in the profiles - log on as domain user to create the new profile. Then log on as Administrator, and use copyto to copy username to username.domainname), though I'm not sure if Windows will now think new profile is local - and just create another new domain profile.

 

[bcastner]

Let the new profile be created. Then just follow this:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151