XP Local User Profiles in a domain environment

[godfather]

Hi All,

This is a pain in my Bu** as I am having problem with a user account. The user account has administrator level role on the local machine and also the account has already been added in admin group on local machine. Howerver, user is getting the domain profile on the local machine when the user login on XP client . It means that the user has no ability to access the local resources i.e. control panel, admin tool. I have followed all the steps which are mentioned on this threat but no luck. Can anyone help me please as it is really annoying to me. At the moment, I have put the user ID in the Admin folder which is not the best practice for myself as a Sys Admin. I am looking forward to hearing from anyone who can help me out. Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
GF

[nfpiddo]

Originally Posted by Ozzyo99

Right this has been the proverbial plague for our business, it doesn't happen frequently but when it does it's a pain in the backside, especially when factoring in additional non-standard build software, and requesting licence keys for activations etc.

Glad i bumped into this thread because the answer to the problem is:

1. Log onto system (preferably as admin).

2. Goto start/run/regedt32

3. Locate key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

4. This will show all readable profiles on the machine, it may but probably will not show information leading to the users original profile.

5. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\UsersName and note the profile name of the original profile, usually the same minus the domain information. Make a note of it.

6. Now go back to regedt and manually edit the duplicate profile location in the ProfileImagePath key to that of the original e.g:

Original - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith
Duplicate - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith.domain



Change the duplicate to point to the original profile, save the change.

7. Now have the user log back in, and they should now again be operating on their original profile - bring on huge relief!

Ozzyo99, thanks for posting this solution!
It worked 100% for me and saved me a lot of time, great!!!