Win2k unable to copy roaming profile?

[Christian Barth]

> Help?
> 
> We've recently moved from a Windows PDC to Samba, and we need to migrate
> user profiles from the old controller to the samba server.  Unfortunately,
> whenever we try this (by using smbtar to recursively copy the files from the
> old controller to the profile directory on the samba server), we get an
> error similar to the following:
> 
> "Cannot copy file \\sambaserver\share\profile\somefile to C:\\documents and
> settings\usernameto C:\\documents and settings\username\somefile.  Access is
> denied.
> 
> After searching google for a while, I've found this question *many* other
> times...but I haven't seen any answers.
> 
> If we start with an empty profile directory, a new configuration gets
> created without a problem.  What's creating the problem when we try to
> migrate the old configuration?
You can't copy profiles like noramal files. in ntuser.dat an else 
ware the DOMAIN-SID and other things are stored. And if they do not 
mach the changed PDC your are in trouble. You can / have to use the 
tools profiedet be NT /W2K to move profiles. They should be some 
where in the user-Settings (???

Christian




> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Lars
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