roaming profile madness

I'm having trouble logging onto our domain without vista logging me on using a tempory profile - I've moved my old xp profile data out of my network share and am now left with a blank folder - I have a script that is run at logon to connect 3 network drives.
The error in even viewer is... ------------------------------------- Log Name: Application Source: User Profiles Service Date: 21/06/2006 08:24:47 Event ID: 1521 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: APR\DGR Computer: BETA-PC Description: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network path was not found. -------------------------------------
My username is an domain administrator - and i have full admin rights over that folder - I can browse that folder in explorer and can copy and paste files to and from it...
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, am a little lost...

"Edward0" wrote in message

I'm having trouble logging onto our domain without vista logging me on using a tempory profile - I've moved my old xp profile data out of my network share and am now left with a blank folder - I have a script that is run at logon to connect 3 network drives.

I'm using Vista on my (WS2K3) domain as well, everything is working great (love the new login screen)... but I'm not using roaming profiles. I am using a GPO to redirect 'My Documents' to a mapped drive and this seems to be fine. I'm using a stardard .BAT file to 'net use' serveral drives on startup. This triggers the UAC every login, but all of my drives map fine.

The error in even viewer is... ------------------------------------- Log Name: Application Source: User Profiles Service Date: 21/06/2006 08:24:47 Event ID: 1521 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: APR\DGR Computer: BETA-PC Description: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network path was not found. -------------------------------------
My username is an domain administrator - and i have full admin rights over that folder - I can browse that folder in explorer and can copy and paste files to and from it...
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, am a little lost...

Blind guess, you network is set to 'Public' instead of 'Private' or like mine 'Domain Network' in the 'Network Center'. Or perhaps Discovery and sharing is turned off?
Good Luck. E

No, this seems to be a widespread issue. I am fairly certain that all security settings are correct on my Vista system and my WS2K3 domain. I am also logging in as a domain admin as well as regular user accounts. The users have been given local logon permissions, domain permissions to log on to any computer, and all work fine under XP SP2. Domain network is automatically selected by Vista. It is not a user setting. If Vista can see the domain controller (which it can,) it classifies the network as a domain network. As far as I can tell, the issue arises with the changing state of the network while the system is logging in. Vista has different network profiles for each user. It seems that it is closing the bootstrap profile and trying to load the account's roaming profile w/o being connected to the network. The event logged either says that the host name cannot be resolved or the path cannot be found, which further suggests the probability of this being a network issue. In my specific case, it is a wireless network. I am not sure if this problem exists on wired networks or not. I have seen several similar posts in this group, but no answers that work so far. We might just have to wait for RC1. Hopefully MS has already fixed it since 5384 or will have it fixed by RC1 (or, better yet, will patch 5384 with a fix for it.)
If anyone does find a fix for this, please post it ASAP.
RossB
"Eric G. van der Paardt" wrote:

"Edward0" wrote in message I'm having trouble logging onto our domain without vista logging me on using a tempory profile - I've moved my old xp profile data out of my network share and am now left with a blank folder - I have a script that is run at logon to connect 3 network drives.
I'm using Vista on my (WS2K3) domain as well, everything is working great (love the new login screen)... but I'm not using roaming profiles. I am using a GPO to redirect 'My Documents' to a mapped drive and this seems to be fine. I'm using a stardard .BAT file to 'net use' serveral drives on startup. This triggers the UAC every login, but all of my drives map fine.
The error in even viewer is... ------------------------------------- Log Name: Application Source: User Profiles Service Date: 21/06/2006 08:24:47 Event ID: 1521 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: APR\DGR Computer: BETA-PC Description: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network path was not found. -------------------------------------
My username is an domain administrator - and i have full admin rights over that folder - I can browse that folder in explorer and can copy and paste files to and from it...
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, am a little lost...
Blind guess, you network is set to 'Public' instead of 'Private' or like mine 'Domain Network' in the 'Network Center'. Or perhaps Discovery and sharing is turned off?
Good Luck. E

Ok I have found the problem and it dates back to Win XP. The OS has locked the account. It can be fixed by editing a key in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Under here you will find some long numbers these are known as the Users SID, if there are a lot of people logged onto the machine there will be a long list in here.(Hopefully not). Click on 1 of them and check the details in the right hand pane and it should give you a profilePath.
If you have blown away you profle, delete the key.
"RossB" wrote:

No, this seems to be a widespread issue. I am fairly certain that all security settings are correct on my Vista system and my WS2K3 domain. I am also logging in as a domain admin as well as regular user accounts. The users have been given local logon permissions, domain permissions to log on to any computer, and all work fine under XP SP2. Domain network is automatically selected by Vista. It is not a user setting. If Vista can see the domain controller (which it can,) it classifies the network as a domain network. As far as I can tell, the issue arises with the changing state of the network while the system is logging in. Vista has different network profiles for each user. It seems that it is closing the bootstrap profile and trying to load the account's roaming profile w/o being connected to the network. The event logged either says that the host name cannot be resolved or the path cannot be found, which further suggests the probability of this being a network issue. In my specific case, it is a wireless network. I am not sure if this problem exists on wired networks or not. I have seen several similar posts in this group, but no answers that work so far. We might just have to wait for RC1. Hopefully MS has already fixed it since 5384 or will have it fixed by RC1 (or, better yet, will patch 5384 with a fix for it.)
If anyone does find a fix for this, please post it ASAP.
RossB
"Eric G. van der Paardt" wrote:
"Edward0" wrote in message I'm having trouble logging onto our domain without vista logging me on using a tempory profile - I've moved my old xp profile data out of my network share and am now left with a blank folder - I have a script that is run at logon to connect 3 network drives.
I'm using Vista on my (WS2K3) domain as well, everything is working great (love the new login screen)... but I'm not using roaming profiles. I am using a GPO to redirect 'My Documents' to a mapped drive and this seems to be fine. I'm using a stardard .BAT file to 'net use' serveral drives on startup. This triggers the UAC every login, but all of my drives map fine.
The error in even viewer is... ------------------------------------- Log Name: Application Source: User Profiles Service Date: 21/06/2006 08:24:47 Event ID: 1521 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: APR\DGR Computer: BETA-PC Description: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network path was not found. -------------------------------------
My username is an domain administrator - and i have full admin rights over that folder - I can browse that folder in explorer and can copy and paste files to and from it...
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, am a little lost...
Blind guess, you network is set to 'Public' instead of 'Private' or like mine 'Domain Network' in the 'Network Center'. Or perhaps Discovery and sharing is turned off?
Good Luck. E

Well, good news and bad news.
bad news: Your fix didn't work. You can't change those keys while logged in with the user and question and they just go away when you log out.
good news: While looking at the key you mentioned, I noticed it was appending ".V2" to the end of the share name it was looking for for the profile. I copied the profile into another folder, shared it as that, and now it works! It still gives a message saying that the profile was not completely synced when it logs off, but it appears to have kept all of the changes that I made while logged it.
Thanks for pointing me to that key! I've been trying to figure that problem out for a couple of months and never thought to look there. As it turns out, I just need to add 3 characters to the share name.
MS: It would be nice if it would look for the share specified in the account info on the LDAP server and not append characters to the end of it.
Thanks, RossB
"Michael Griffin-Wade" wrote:

Ok I have found the problem and it dates back to Win XP. The OS has locked the account. It can be fixed by editing a key in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Under here you will find some long numbers these are known as the Users SID, if there are a lot of people logged onto the machine there will be a long list in here.(Hopefully not). Click on 1 of them and check the details in the right hand pane and it should give you a profilePath.
If you have blown away you profle, delete the key.
"RossB" wrote:
No, this seems to be a widespread issue. I am fairly certain that all security settings are correct on my Vista system and my WS2K3 domain. I am also logging in as a domain admin as well as regular user accounts. The users have been given local logon permissions, domain permissions to log on to any computer, and all work fine under XP SP2. Domain network is automatically selected by Vista. It is not a user setting. If Vista can see the domain controller (which it can,) it classifies the network as a domain network. As far as I can tell, the issue arises with the changing state of the network while the system is logging in. Vista has different network profiles for each user. It seems that it is closing the bootstrap profile and trying to load the account's roaming profile w/o being connected to the network. The event logged either says that the host name cannot be resolved or the path cannot be found, which further suggests the probability of this being a network issue. In my specific case, it is a wireless network. I am not sure if this problem exists on wired networks or not. I have seen several similar posts in this group, but no answers that work so far. We might just have to wait for RC1. Hopefully MS has already fixed it since 5384 or will have it fixed by RC1 (or, better yet, will patch 5384 with a fix for it.)
If anyone does find a fix for this, please post it ASAP.
RossB
"Eric G. van der Paardt" wrote:
"Edward0" wrote in message I'm having trouble logging onto our domain without vista logging me on using a tempory profile - I've moved my old xp profile data out of my network share and am now left with a blank folder - I have a script that is run at logon to connect 3 network drives.
I'm using Vista on my (WS2K3) domain as well, everything is working great (love the new login screen)... but I'm not using roaming profiles. I am using a GPO to redirect 'My Documents' to a mapped drive and this seems to be fine. I'm using a stardard .BAT file to 'net use' serveral drives on startup. This triggers the UAC every login, but all of my drives map fine.
The error in even viewer is... ------------------------------------- Log Name: Application Source: User Profiles Service Date: 21/06/2006 08:24:47 Event ID: 1521 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: APR\DGR Computer: BETA-PC Description: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network path was not found. -------------------------------------
My username is an domain administrator - and i have full admin rights over that folder - I can browse that folder in explorer and can copy and paste files to and from it...
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, am a little lost...
Blind guess, you network is set to 'Public' instead of 'Private' or like mine 'Domain Network' in the 'Network Center'. Or perhaps Discovery and sharing is turned off?
Good Luck. E

Hi,
I have been having this problem as have what appears to be numerous other posters in this thread, I read in another post that you have to be careful to setup your user account as admin on the first boot after install,
***Quote***
Hi Scott,
This is a known security test going on with Vista Pre-release builds.
The FIX for your problem is:
1. When you join the machine the machine to the domain, at that time when it ask you to reboot, do not reboot 2. Instead go to the Control Panel and under User and Account Settings, add your domain user name to the Administrator Group 3. Then you can safely log off and log back in
The BUG here is 1. When you join the machine to the domain, the default Administrator account gets locked out 2. Before joining the machine to the domain, users have to create another administrator Account on the local machine (which is way beyond expectation for layman) 3. Then you logon to the new user account on the local machine which is a part of the administrator group and then join the machine to the domain.
*****If you miss the step of creating a new Administrative user account before joining the machine to the domain, mind you, you would have to rebuild the Vista image and start all over from scratch******
*** End of Quote ***
surely the registry can be used to enable the local profile as admin, not being up on reg settings I have no clue, but I am sure one of you techno wizards can work out which value needs to be changed ;) (crosses fingers and prays)