Roaming profiles not saving to server

Hi all,

I have a small network with a Win2k3 server/domain, 2 XP PCs and 2 PCs with
Vista business 64. I'm not trying to use the same account on both a Vista and
XP PC.

Both the XP PCs accounts and PCs are working fine with roaming profiles
being copied to and from the server as expected. However, neither of the
Vista PCs are doing this properly.

The accounts are setup the same in AD with the user profile pointing to
\\servername\profiles\username, home directory pointing to
\\servername\username, folder redirection enabled for documents.

The profiles folder is shared with EVERYONE, SYSTEM and AUTHENTICATED USERS
having full control at the share level.

The profiles folder is permissioned the same way with USERNAME and
ADMINISTRATORS having full control on the profile or profile.V2 folders.

When a user first logs onto a PC his profile is created correctly on the PC
and saved back to the server on log off as expected. Everything will continue
working for a while then for no apparent reason, the profiles on the PCs will
stop writing back to the server.

The Vista users can browse to \\servername\profiles\username and
create/delete files to the permissions seem to be setup correctly.

I don't seem to be having any DNS issues as all PCs can resolve IPs to all
other PCs. Permissions for private user data and shared data areas are
working correctly. Web/network browsing is all working fine. In fact the
only problem I am experiencing is this one.

There are no errors being displayed and nothing obvious being logged in the
event viewer.

Please, any advise? I'm not getting anywhere with trying to fix this.

Thanks in advance

Hi The_Lid,

Did you find an answer to this problem as I am seeing the exact same
thing. Same share and NTFS permissions, no problems with Windows XP
roaming profiles writing back to the server, but nothing gets written
back from a Vista client. On logging in to a Vista machine, the .V2
folder gets created in the profiles directory but nothing is uploaded on
log off. The accounts can browse the roaming profile directory and write
data to it, so there are no permission issues, it seems that Vista just
isn't writing back. The problem occurs for all accounts including domain
admin.

I've done plenty of Technet / forums / Google searching but have yet to
come up an answer. Did you find anything?

Cheers.


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csevo3

Hi,

Yes I did resolve it eventually. It turned out to be one of the nvidia
video driver components that was causing the problem.

1 - Click start
2 - type msconfig
3 - go to the services tab
4 - click in the box to hide the microsoft services
5 - locate the nvidia services and uncheck it/them
6 - reboot

I have no idea what this service is supposed to do. The PCs work perfectly
without them including in all the games we play so the drivers are obviously
still working fine.

Hope it works for you too.

Excellent. Our new HP DC7800's have Nvidia cards in them and I included
the latest driver in the image. Looks like something I can investigate
tomorrow morning...

Thanks for the tip.


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csevo3

Yes sure enough that was the problem, thank you Nvidia "WHQL".


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csevo3

Thank you The_Lid.. this has been extremely helpful. After searching the web for a day and a half for someone who has the same symptons and issues you're fix worked instantly. I'm extremely grateful for your advice!!