If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Help: lost profile and settings
You can only ever be a member of one domain or AD. You
can (as the system administrator) set up a trust relationship between two or more domains, and therefore your domain or AD membership never changes, regardless of your phyisical location, but you are able to log on in the satellite office. To Regain your old settings you need to do the following steps: 1. Remove the computer account from the new (win2000) domain using the Network ID wizard. 2. Log in as the computer administrator and rename any profile folders that correspond to your username in Documents and Settings. (This ensures you get a fresh copy of your profile from the server and don't overwrite your only good copy) 3. Connect to the original domain using the Network ID wizard. (Restart as requested) 4. Log on to the original domain using your original username and password. (This will pull your old profile down from the network and your setting should return) Hope this helps. James -----Original Message----- I have a multi domain and workgroup working environment with my XP Pro laptop where I need to log onto several domains and a workgroup. My original domain was on a SBS 2003 server and all was good. However, am I away to a branch office and have tried to log onto the domain there (Win2000 Server) (which I have a user account on also but under a different computer name, user name and domain name). Attempting to change my computer name and Domain, I lost all my connectivity to the original domain and also lost my desktop settings and all the user profile information such as application licenses and customizations. When I tried to copy those settings from the original domain profile, it now shows it as an unknown domain (in the user profiles d-box)and will not allow me to copy it to a new profile. Moreover, I cannot rejoin the original domain to retrieve my original profile settings (I am away from the physical site for some months but had a working VPN connection before all this happened). It's as though, when I tried to logon to a different domain (or even just the alternate user (on this computer) all my settings, connections and workspace self destructed...within 5 seconds. Someone in MS seems to be part of the Mission Impossible team with this kind of diabolical arrangement. So my question is, how can I get back to where I was, connected to my original domain via VPN and thereby (hopefully) retrieve my original desktop and settings? And how can I prevent this from happening when I try to gain access to my branch office network? Any help will be very much appretiated. Rgds, RMcDld . |
Ads |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|