\\(server name)\profiles$\(username)

Ok, this is your first problem: profile$
The "$" denotes an administrative share which does not allow regular users to access the shares. They would have to be members of the administrators group to be able to acces, and/or, write to the shares. Kill those folders, recreate them without the $. This is how it should look:
\\server\shared folder\user.


On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 4:20 pm, nielson wrote:
>hi
>
>just installed 2003 on a spare computer here. i have set up active directory, file
>server& dns. now i have created some users in the active directory and have double
>clicked them and on the profile tab i have put in a path for profiles to be stored
>\\(server name)\profiles$\(username) which comes up with no errors on the server,
>however when i log on (using win 2000) it says it cannot store the profile in the
>path ive given and that a local profile will be used i have set permissions everyone
>has everything but full control and then the admins which have full control with
>inheritable permissions allowed. now i have also added a path to the home folder
>\\(server name)\home$\(username) and it comes up with a message saying:
>
> the \\(server name)\home\(username) was not created because the path was not found.
>This could be caused by listing non-existant intermediate folders or by not finding
>the server or share. The user account has been updated with the new home folder value
>but you must create the folder manually.
>
>i have been working with server 2000 in the past and it automatically added the folder
>in the correct location. what is going on?
>
>finally, i am able to login to the domain via windows 2000 but my windows xp pro
>machine complains that the domain cannot be found?

Written in response to: a couple problems new server (nielson: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 4:20 pm) Responses to this message: re: a couple problems new server (appleoddity: Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:37 am)

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