Shared group profiles and active directory

[psymonj]

I have almost reached the end of my fuse with this.

On a regular day; I handle basic, day-to-day, troubleshooting (plug mouse in...). Recently I have been stepped up to build a new domain from scratch, mimicking as best I could the current set up.

I have created the user accounts, but I need a group of users - based in a call center - to share a mandatory profile with heavy GP's applied.
The shared profile doesn't seem to be a problem, but the GP's aren't applied.
The first machine was fine, logging in with 3 of the 4 accounts I had created.
Feeling confident I tried to log on using 3 more machines to find that the first node was applied and the more recent 3 had no GP assigned.

The porfile is \\server\profiles\pods, with the NTuser file renamed to .man.
I have seperated the group policy files into 'logical' parts so to make it easier to undo items, applying one at a time makes no difference.

From my pitiful attempt at explaining, is there anyone who has had any similar experience or knowledge - ANYTHING is gratefully accepted!

Many thanks in advance,
Simon

Simon Hawes
Silvercoast Media

http://www.silvercoast.co.uk

simon@silvercoast.co.uk

 

[psymonj]

Also, is there a tool that can inform you as to which server authenticated the users log on?

We are in a right mess here and it'd be nice to have an inclination as to what IS working and where...

Many thanks

Simon Hawes
Silvercoast Media

http://www.silvercoast.co.uk

simon@silvercoast.co.uk

 

[wolluf]

Simon - you might be better posting this in the appropriate server forum (2k - forum96, 2k3 - forum931).

I take it the users concerned are part of same OU, and the GP's are being applied to the OU?

Have you tried running gpupdate on the server?