Domain .local?

[Lizardkng]

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.

 

[mickyjune26]

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

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...pro/proddocs/sysdm_userprofile_changetype.asp

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:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prdc_mcc_wtje.asp

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.

 

[Lizardkng]

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!

 

[Lizardkng]

Also might be of note...

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

Whats this all about?

 

[mickyjune26]

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.