Roaming Profile Not Working When Using Services With Same Account

ID: Q177662

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

If a domain user account is used as the account to start up a service on a workstation or member server, and the same domain user account is set up to use a roaming profile, the roaming profiles cannot be used on this workstation or member server.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, perform one of the following:

Create a second domain user account with identical rights and use this account for the service.

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Disable roaming profiles for this domain user account.

Additional query words: roaming profile services

Keywords : ntdomain NTSrvWkst
Version : WinNT:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb