Event ID: 1000 Due to Trailing Blank Space in User Profile Path

ID: Q248368

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you log on to a Windows 2000 domain, you may receive the following error message:

Your roaming profile is not available. You are logged on with the locally stored profile. Changes to the profile will not be propagated to the
server. Contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - The system cannot find the specified path.

After you click OK or the 30 second clock times out, you receive another error message:

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

The server registers an error code associated with the users profile.

Event ID: 1000
Source: Userenv
Category: None
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: servername

Description:
Your roaming profile is not available. You are logged on with the locally stored profile. Changes to the profile will not be propagated to the
server. Contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - The system cannot find the specified path.

You may receive a similar error message in Windows NT 4.0:

Your roaming profile is not available, the operating system is attempting to log you on with your local profile.

CAUSE

This issue can occur if you configure a user record to have a trailing space in its user profile path.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, remove trailing spaces, and then log on again.

NOTE: You cannot see the trailing space unless you highlight the profile path.

For example,if you use the following profile path

D:\Profiles\User

the subfolders look like this

D:\Profiles\User \Cookies

NOTE: Leading and embedded spaces are permitted but not trailing spaces. This behavior is consistent with Windows NT 4.

An Administrator can specify where a user's profile folder structure is stored by editing the profile path item of the user record structure. You can use the Active Directory Users and Computers Utility to edit user record structure.

STATUS

This issue is by design.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg kbtool
Version : WINDOWS:2000; winnt:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbprb