Re: [SLE] A Samba question about Win2000

From: js (fyrbrds_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/24/03

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    Ian David Laws wrote:

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    >On Wednesday 24 September 2003 00:31, js wrote:
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    >>Ian David Laws wrote:
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    >>Once unexpected side effect. It created an entirely new login with new
    >>home directory for my user on the XP box along with a roaming profile on
    >>the server. To my surprise, I had no favorites, my programs were
    >>reinitialized, and I email profiles didn't work anymore. Even my My
    >>Documents folder was empty. This caused a temporary panic until I saw
    >>my old folder was still there, but I didn't have permission to view it.
    >>I eventually worked around all this, but anyone experimenting might want
    >>to back up the user data and possibly the registry data so you can
    >>import it to your new user account. I believe there is a migration tool
    >>for this, but for now that's on my todo list.
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    >If you had login as Admin you should of been able to copy all the files. :-(
    >At least it is now working. :-)
    >
    >Ian
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    I did just that, but it still didn't retain my old registry settings for
    some reason. My netscape favorites , email accounts and such don't work.

    John 

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