Profiles

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Hello,

I have Windows 2003 domain with mixed clients like Windows 2000, Windows XP
and Windows Vista.

We use roaming profiles and this network share is configured on a Windows
2003 Server. For example, when we create a user account in the profiles tab
we specify [ \\FileServer\profiles\user] as the path. It works as expected
with Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients. With Vista, it appears to be
working but we have seen cases where Vista clients cannot load profiles from
this network share.

Please find my queries:

1. It appears Vista creates a profile automatically with .V2 extention. Is
it recommended or required to manually create this folder under the network
share where profiles are stored?
2. What permissions should I see for this user from the network share? When
I browse the user profile folder from the network share Server, I cannot see
any permissions and to me this strange. Is this the default behaviour for
automatically created Vista profile folders?
 
Re: Profiles

TSAM <TSAM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Windows 2003 domain with mixed clients like Windows 2000,
> Windows XP and Windows Vista.
>
> We use roaming profiles and this network share is configured on a
> Windows 2003 Server. For example, when we create a user account in
> the profiles tab we specify [ \\FileServer\profiles\user] as the
> path. It works as expected with Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients.
> With Vista, it appears to be working but we have seen cases where
> Vista clients cannot load profiles from this network share.
>
> Please find my queries:
>
> 1. It appears Vista creates a profile automatically with .V2
> extention. Is it recommended or required to manually create this
> folder under the network share where profiles are stored?

No, I believe it's created automatically.

> 2. What permissions should I see for this user from the network
> share? When I browse the user profile folder from the network share
> Server, I cannot see any permissions and to me this strange. Is this
> the default behaviour for automatically created Vista profile folders?

Do you have the GPO setting enabled to add administrators to roaming profile
folders on the server?

I'm not a Vista expert (shudder) but someone else is bound to post about
that. I'm writing because I wanted to mention that you must not mix 'n match
OS versions when you use roaming profiles, if your users ever log into PCs
with different OSes than they were set up for. It causes problems galore,
even between 2000 and XP.
 
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