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Roaming Profile Not Working When Using Services With Same Account

Article ID: 177662

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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This article was previously published under Q177662

SYMPTOMS

If a domain user account is used as the account to start up a service on a workstation or member server, and the same domain user account is set up to use a roaming profile, the roaming profiles cannot be used on this workstation or member server.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, perform one of the following:

  • Create a second domain user account with identical rights and use this account for the service.

    -or-
  • Disable roaming profiles for this domain user account.


Additional query words: roaming profile services

Keywords: kbprb KB177662


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