[Samba] Moving Profiles

[Hamish]

I guess there are not too many users to move over? (also that you are 
using win2k/xp) There is a way to move the profiles *after* they have 
been joined to the PDC.
Log in to the machine with the new username, this will create a new 
profile, log out immediately. Log in as an admin account (but not the 
"addministrator" that the users were using) Right click my computer > 
properties > advanced > user profiles > settings. Select the old account 
and click copy to.. choose the new user folder in documents and settings 
(this will warn that there is alreadyy a profile there and it will be 
cleared > just ok it. The last bit to do is change permission to use (or 
something very similar) change this to the new username (make sure you 
put it in the format DOMAIN\user) - this will copy the profile 
flawlessly to the new user, a bit slow if there are a number of them, 
but less than 5 or so and its a good fix.
Hope that helps,
H

Mark Lidstone wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm about to install a Samba PDC in a network that previously was
>working as a workgroup.  All the users have been logging into their
>local machines as "administrator" and all with the same password.
>
>What I would really like to do is to move their profiles with them, but
>as they are all using the same username and the like I can see this is
>going to cause problems.
>
>So far I have been thinking about doing the following:
>
>	1) Create a second administrator account on each machine
>	2) Login as the second administrator and copy the
>"administrator" profile to another folder, renamed for the new user's
>username (e.g. "Documents and Settings\Administrator" -> "Documents and
>Settings\DOMAIN.username")
>	3) Change ownership/permissions on the new profile folder to
>match that of the new user
>
>I'm also planning on making sure that roaming profiles are disabled
>using the "LocalProfile" registry key that Michael Lueck recently posted
>about on here.  Users will have a network-home folder that will be
>backed up which should be plenty enough for them.
>
>Can anyone point out what problems this will cause?  I think there is
>going to be an issue with the registry, is the SID in there somewhere?
>How can I reset it?  Is there a better way of doing this?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Mark Lidstone
>IT and Network Support Administrator
>
>BMT SeaTech Ltd
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