Roaming Profile Problems

[ryhackl]

Greetings!

The Windows NT 4.0 Workstations that I manage should be able to work with roaming profiles on the Windows 2000 Server that I have.

Unfortunately, when I put the full UNC path "\\Servername\profiles\user" in the Windows 2000 Server (in Active Directory for the user), and then log on from a workstation (again, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation), I get the error window:

"Your roaming profile is not available, the operating system is attempting to log you on with your local profile. (67)"

and the computer loads up the local profile. I've done some homework around this, and found that error 67 means that the network path (or name) wasn't found. I've made sure the syntax was correct, and I've typed in the full UNC path (mentioned above).

What is wrong with my path? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ryan

 

[WillShakespeare]

Have you shared the user folder? When this is automatically created in W2K AD, it creates the users folder, but doesn't actually share it for older systems. You can verify this by going to the userdata folder, and seeing if the user folders there have hands under them. The reason is other W2K Pro workstations, and XP don't need to read the share, because they get the infor from AD... NT and Win9x machines don't.

Will

 

[ryhackl]

Thanks for the input!

I actually HAD forgotten to set the "\profiles" folder to allow access from all users. When I set up access to everyone, then I was able to access the subfolders within the \profiles folder.

- Ryan