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Lizardkng

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Hello, first, I have received many good tips from this forum prior to my registration today. I thank all of you for all the help that you provide to myself and others. I must explain that I have had some formal training under NT 4.0 (MCSE track, not certified) and am the default Network Admin/Desktop Support for our small agency of 15 employees. I am unfamilliar with Active Directory (but I struggle through), and many of the features included in W2k, please forgive me if my questions sound silly.

I am running a W2K Domain, with 1 domain controller and 6-7 clients, I'm running DNS, DHCP, and Im using ICS to share Internet across the network. My question is this:

We had 1 machine to crash recently, and I reinstalled W2k (no format) and re-added the machine to the domain, but now, in the Documents and Settings folder, I'm seeing multiple profile folders, username and username.domainname

My personal profile I recognize as being the username profile from before the crash. It seems the username.domainname profile folders were all created after the crash.

Also, I am trying to use roaming profiles. Didnt have this problem before the crash.

 
here's a good site to make roaming profiles local:

If your computer tries to create a profile in a name that already exists, it will apend the domain name aftwards (username.domainname).

here's something else that you might want to do to make the client computers easier to manage:

Also, you can redirect their .pst files to a mapped drive, such as the Z: drive. I like to have their home directory be the z: drive and use GPOs to redirect "My Documents" to that folder.

Hope this helps.
 
OK, what if users currenly have multiple profiles on a local machine?

username

And

username.domainname

As well as their original profiles stored on the server as username?

Do I copy the old profiles, stored on the server to the client, and delete the ones with the .domainname?

Ive already redirected their My Documents to the server. I think...as I said, Im still kinda new to IT, and am VERY new to Active Directory.

Thanks again for all your help!
 
Also might be of note...

That I just discovered on the local machine, a profile named Administrator.domainname.000.

Whats this all about?
 
I'll get back to you on that one. I'm kinda busy for the next couple days, but I'll try to get to it this weekend.
 
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