Roaming profiles not saving user settings

2007-03-07 18:51:10 UTC

Lanwench

thanks for your boilerplate.

I have only one question about step 2.
How do I change the NTFS Security to administrators? I did go to the
securirty tab, but I thought if the administrators had full controll I could
access the folder profile$. I must have the wrong setting somewhere, because
I cannot access it as the administrator.

thanks

jj

Post by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Set up roaming profiles on SBS 2003 SP1 with each users path pointing
to a shared folder containing a folder for each users profile. ie -
\\servername\shared\username\

I wouldn't use that path....

For some reason when a user makes a change to settings like desktop
appearance, nothing is saved when the log out and then log back in.
I know I must be missing something simple. Thoughts?
Thanks,
Dylan

Here's my boilerplate on roaming profiles.
1. Set up a share on the server. For example - d:\profiles, shared as
profiles$ to make it hidden from browsing. Make sure this share is not set
to allow offline files/caching!
2. Make sure the share permissions on profiles$ indicate everyone=full
control. Set the NTFS security to administrators, system, and users=full
control.
3. In the users' ADUC properties, specify \\server\profiles$\%username% in
the profiles field
4. Have each user log into the domain once from their usual workstation
(where their existing profile lives) and log out. The profile is now
roaming.
5. If you want the administrators group to automatically have permissions to
the profiles folders, you'll need to make the appropriate change in group
policy. Look in computer configuration/administrative templates/system/user
profiles - there's an option to add administrators group to the roaming
profiles permissions.
* Make sure users understand that they should never log into multiple
computers at the same time when they have roaming profiles (unless you make
the profiles mandatory by renaming ntuser.dat to ntuser.man so they can't
change them). Explain that the
last one out
wins, when it comes to uploading the final, changed copy of the profile.
* Keep your profiles TINY. Redirect My Documents; usually best done to the
user's home directory on the server - either via
group policy (folder redirection) or manually (far less advisable). If you
aren't going to also redirect the desktop using policies, tell users that
they are not to store any files on the desktop or you will beat them with a
stick. Big profile=slow login/logout, and possible profile corruption.
* Note that user profiles are not compatible between different OS versions,
even between W2k/XP. Keep all your computers. Keep your workstations as
identical as possible - meaning, OS version is the same, SP level is the
same, app load is (as much as possible) the same.
* Do not let people store any data locally - all data belongs on the server.
* The User Profile Hive Cleanup Utility should be running on all your
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en