Guest Kelly Posted December 11, 2007 Posted December 11, 2007 Hello, This is an odd one.. My PDCe is showing a local user profile for almost every user on my network. They appear both within the System Properties ->Advanced->User Profiles as well as each has a folder within the C:\Documents and Setting\ . I know for a fact that these users have never logged into the server locally. We are redirecting the user's My Documents folder (to D:\Home\%username%) via GPO but are not using roaming profiles. These odd local profiles have a folder structure containing at the root "Application Data", "Cookies", "Local Settings", as well as "NTUser.dat" and "NTUser.dat.log". the size of each profile is approx 220KB. The only way ive found so far to recreate the issue is to open Word, logged on a PC as one of the network users, and save-as a doc into the redirected My Documents folder. We are in a Native 2003 domain and the affected clients are both WinXP and Win2K. Thank you for any insight you may have on this! :-) Kelly
Guest DevilsPGD Posted December 11, 2007 Posted December 11, 2007 Re: Network user's profiles being created as local profiles on the DC In message <6EEC5B70-A304-4335-9E6A-470786B6B27D@microsoft.com> Kelly <Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hello, > >This is an odd one.. >My PDCe is showing a local user profile for almost every user on my network. >They appear both within the System Properties ->Advanced->User Profiles as >well as each has a folder within the C:\Documents and Setting\ . >I know for a fact that these users have never logged into the server >locally. We are redirecting the user's My Documents folder (to >D:\Home\%username%) via GPO but are not using roaming profiles. These odd >local profiles have a folder structure containing at the root "Application >Data", "Cookies", "Local Settings", as well as "NTUser.dat" and >"NTUser.dat.log". the size of each profile is approx 220KB. > >The only way ive found so far to recreate the issue is to open Word, logged >on a PC as one of the network users, and save-as a doc into the redirected My >Documents folder. > >We are in a Native 2003 domain and the affected clients are both WinXP and >Win2K. > >Thank you for any insight you may have on this! :-) Any chance you're using EFS? If so, this is apparently a side-effect of the way EFS keys are stored.
Guest Kelly Posted December 12, 2007 Posted December 12, 2007 Re: Network user's profiles being created as local profiles on the Re: Network user's profiles being created as local profiles on the "DevilsPGD" wrote: > In message <6EEC5B70-A304-4335-9E6A-470786B6B27D@microsoft.com> Kelly > <Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >This is an odd one.. > >My PDCe is showing a local user profile for almost every user on my network. > >They appear both within the System Properties ->Advanced->User Profiles as > >well as each has a folder within the C:\Documents and Setting\ . > >I know for a fact that these users have never logged into the server > >locally. We are redirecting the user's My Documents folder (to > >D:\Home\%username%) via GPO but are not using roaming profiles. These odd > >local profiles have a folder structure containing at the root "Application > >Data", "Cookies", "Local Settings", as well as "NTUser.dat" and > >"NTUser.dat.log". the size of each profile is approx 220KB. > > > >The only way ive found so far to recreate the issue is to open Word, logged > >on a PC as one of the network users, and save-as a doc into the redirected My > >Documents folder. > > > >We are in a Native 2003 domain and the affected clients are both WinXP and > >Win2K. > > > >Thank you for any insight you may have on this! :-) > > Any chance you're using EFS? If so, this is apparently a side-effect of > the way EFS keys are stored. > Thank you for your response! Hmm well we do have an EFS certicate in our default GPO..though i cant find any folders which are set to use EFS. To test though i created a new OU & GPO (with my docs redirection) and placed my test user & PC into it and then disabled the default GPO inheritance...but the same local profile thing happened. I'm fairly new to this company so I'm still discovering interesting configs that were done. :-) I will talk to the other IT people here to see if they any history on the EFS setup, when they are in tommorrow. Any other ideas? or anything specific with EFS that i should look at which i havent mentioned/overlooked? Thank you, Kelly
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