Windows 7 temp profile issue

[anything I don't mind]

I have received a brand new laptop with windows 7 pro, I have joined it to the domain and restarted the computer.

I tried creating a fresh new unused account on AD and i tried an existing account and no matter what i do they won't create a windows 7 profile on the profile store on the server and it just loads a temp profile.

any ideas ?

edit: i have narrowed it down to a permission issue on the profile folder on the server. Domain admin accounts log in ok but not domain users. Which means the domain users can not create the windows 7 profile folder. I tried manually creating the folder with a .V2 next to it on the server and setting up the permissions (as i used to do with xp) but it still loads temp profile.

 

[mrk]

Do you mean it's not polling your server if logged in via a new domain user account? I've set up various 7 machines on my network domain here and occasionally get this issue but resolve it by going into the registry and deleting the effected profile's subfolder under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList - Simply logoff and back on as the user and Windows should not load a temp profile for that user any more.

 

[anything I don't mind]

I don't think the problem is on the local machine. I will try what you have said. But it looks like a permissions problem on the profile folder on the network.

Windows 7 is unable to create the roaming profile folder on the server so it is resorting to a temp profile. I am going to have to try and give everyone write permissions to the root of the profile folder, not ideal. But windows 7 for you.

 

[mrk]

Ah your network is set up with roaming profiles, I misread the post sorry. The network I manage isn't roaming based as each user is tied to their machine although they can log on to any other machine but will get a new profile on that machine.

 

[anything I don't mind]

I am not even using the roaming profile aspect in this instance. I just want windows 7 to create a profile on the server location with a standard user account.

in windows xp, i used to create the profile folder manually on the server and then give that user write permission to it, but this does not seem to work in windows 7.

edit: this was fixed by giving write access permission to the root folder of profiles so that windows 7 can auto create the profile.

sorry to bother.

 

[Nanobot]

This might be useful for what you need to do.