Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:23 PM CST, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:13 PM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Ok, I tested this on a couple of our windows 7 machines. I did as you said and changed the profile to a local one, removed it from the existing domain, added it to the new domain, and logged in as the user again. It gave me a new profile. Looking in C:\Users I see the username folder and username.NEWDOMAIN. It is creating a new profile for the same user on the new domain. Is there a way to do this? I have searched but only see directions for doing local profiles to roaming. Figures I would be going against the grain here. Add the machine to the new domain. Change permisions on the username folder. Also, you'll need to load the user's registry and change permissions. I really can't remember if you also need to change something else in the user's registry. I'll ask our technicians tomorrow and I'll let you know. BTW, the same username in two domains is a different user (different SID). That's why you see username.NEWDOMAIN. Regards, Norberto Thanks for that. I tried changing the permissions on the folder but totally forgot about the registry. Also I tried the program reprofiler as it is supposed to automate alot of this but I couldn't get it just right either. -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba I spent all day yesterday on this and never got anywhere until just before I left work. I tried everything I could think of and every way of doing it. Here is just one way of what I tried: 1. Log in as user on old domain, verify stuff works 2. Log out and in as local administrator 3. Change from olddomain to newdomain, reboot 4. Log in as user on newdomain, creates new profile (obviously since it is a new user) 5. Reboot to make sure profile is not locked and log in as local administrator 6. Copy contents of olddomain profile over to newdomain folder 7. Change permissions recursively on newdomain profile folder and NTUSER.DAT to allow newdomain user full control 8. Reboot 9. Log in as user, profile is there but no file on desktop is able to be opened. Also could not open Windows Explorer. Finally what worked for me was after step 4 I would navigate to C:\Users\oldprofile as the user on the newdomain, with administrator escalation of course, and copy over only the contents of the specific folders I wanted. For instance the contents of Desktop, certain folders out of AppData/Roaming, etc. This seems to have worked so far. The only issue is that they lose their customizations to windows. But that is not a huge deal. This is just so if anyone else has these problems in the future. -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
Hello, first, I'm sorry for making you wait for so long. I had some personal problems that required my attention. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: 1. Log in as user on old domain, verify stuff works 2. Log out and in as local administrator 3. Change from olddomain to newdomain, reboot Ok 4. Log in as user on newdomain, creates new profile (obviously since it is a new user) Nope. You should remain logged as administrator, change permissions on the user folder to the user of the newdomain. Then, from regedit, load the user registry and change its permissions. 5. Reboot to make sure profile is not locked and log in as local administrator Yes. Everything else is unnecessary, just login as the user in the new domain and it should work. HTH, Norberto -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:21 AM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, first, I'm sorry for making you wait for so long. I had some personal problems that required my attention. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: 1. Log in as user on old domain, verify stuff works 2. Log out and in as local administrator 3. Change from olddomain to newdomain, reboot Ok 4. Log in as user on newdomain, creates new profile (obviously since it is a new user) Nope. You should remain logged as administrator, change permissions on the user folder to the user of the newdomain. Then, from regedit, load the user registry and change its permissions. I did as you said and changed permissions on the files and registry. Still when I logged in as the user on the new domain it created a username.NEWDOMAIN folder. It's not a big deal if I have to do it the way I was able to make it work. Kind of cuts down on the user profile garbage. 5. Reboot to make sure profile is not locked and log in as local administrator Yes. Everything else is unnecessary, just login as the user in the new domain and it should work. HTH, Norberto -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles to local. What would be the best practice to accomplish this? I can find plenty of writeups on how to do the opposite. Also we will be doing some extra folder redirection. Currently we only redirect their my documents to the server. On the new system we plan to redirect AppData and Desktop also. Is there a good easy way to automate this while still retaining their existing information? -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
Hello Donny, On 01/09/2013 03:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles to local. What would be the best practice to accomplish this? I can find plenty of writeups on how to do the opposite. Also we will be doing some extra folder redirection. Currently we only redirect their my documents to the server. On the new system we plan to redirect AppData and Desktop also. Is there a good easy way to automate this while still retaining their existing information? You should take a look at the Windows user profile manager. Using WindowsXP you can follow these steps: Right click on My Computer Select Properties Advanced Settings-Button in User Profiles Björn -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-37-0, fax: +49-551-37-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 09:14 AM CST, Bjoern Baumbach b...@sernet.de wrote: Hello Donny, On 01/09/2013 03:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles to local. What would be the best practice to accomplish this? I can find plenty of writeups on how to do the opposite. Also we will be doing some extra folder redirection. Currently we only redirect their my documents to the server. On the new system we plan to redirect AppData and Desktop also. Is there a good easy way to automate this while still retaining their existing information? You should take a look at the Windows user profile manager. Using WindowsXP you can follow these steps: Right click on My Computer Select Properties Advanced Settings-Button in User Profiles Björn -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-37-0, fax: +49-551-37-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de Thanks for the fast reply. That looks like exactly what I was looking for. I am about to test that with a few windows 7 machines I have. What would be the best way to automate the folder redirection, if that is even possible. I thought about just adding the directives to the users netlogon.bat but I am not sure that will move the data automatically. -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
Thanks for the fast reply. That looks like exactly what I was looking for. I am about to test that with a few windows 7 machines I have. What would be the best way to automate the folder redirection, if that is even possible. I thought about just adding the directives to the users netlogon.bat but I am not sure that will move the data automatically. Windows 7 has the same option in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System then click Advanced system settings then user profiles. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 09:14 AM CST, Bjoern Baumbach b...@sernet.de wrote: Hello Donny, On 01/09/2013 03:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles to local. What would be the best practice to accomplish this? I can find plenty of writeups on how to do the opposite. Also we will be doing some extra folder redirection. Currently we only redirect their my documents to the server. On the new system we plan to redirect AppData and Desktop also. Is there a good easy way to automate this while still retaining their existing information? You should take a look at the Windows user profile manager. Using WindowsXP you can follow these steps: Right click on My Computer Select Properties Advanced Settings-Button in User Profiles Björn -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-37-0, fax: +49-551-37-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de Ok, I tested this on a couple of our windows 7 machines. I did as you said and changed the profile to a local one, removed it from the existing domain, added it to the new domain, and logged in as the user again. It gave me a new profile. Looking in C:\Users I see the username folder and username.NEWDOMAIN. It is creating a new profile for the same user on the new domain. Is there a way to do this? I have searched but only see directions for doing local profiles to roaming. Figures I would be going against the grain here. -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Ok, I tested this on a couple of our windows 7 machines. I did as you said and changed the profile to a local one, removed it from the existing domain, added it to the new domain, and logged in as the user again. It gave me a new profile. Looking in C:\Users I see the username folder and username.NEWDOMAIN. It is creating a new profile for the same user on the new domain. Is there a way to do this? I have searched but only see directions for doing local profiles to roaming. Figures I would be going against the grain here. Add the machine to the new domain. Change permisions on the username folder. Also, you'll need to load the user's registry and change permissions. I really can't remember if you also need to change something else in the user's registry. I'll ask our technicians tomorrow and I'll let you know. BTW, the same username in two domains is a different user (different SID). That's why you see username.NEWDOMAIN. Regards, Norberto -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:13 PM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Ok, I tested this on a couple of our windows 7 machines. I did as you said and changed the profile to a local one, removed it from the existing domain, added it to the new domain, and logged in as the user again. It gave me a new profile. Looking in C:\Users I see the username folder and username.NEWDOMAIN. It is creating a new profile for the same user on the new domain. Is there a way to do this? I have searched but only see directions for doing local profiles to roaming. Figures I would be going against the grain here. Add the machine to the new domain. Change permisions on the username folder. Also, you'll need to load the user's registry and change permissions. I really can't remember if you also need to change something else in the user's registry. I'll ask our technicians tomorrow and I'll let you know. BTW, the same username in two domains is a different user (different SID). That's why you see username.NEWDOMAIN. Regards, Norberto Thanks for that. I tried changing the permissions on the folder but totally forgot about the registry. Also I tried the program reprofiler as it is supposed to automate alot of this but I couldn't get it just right either. -- Donny B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
