Domain Users Cannot Logon W7

[ITanimal]

Ok its not really a problem because i found a way around it. i am just asking if there is another way. my scenario:

1 server standard 2008

2 windows 7 client machines.

custom OS W7. on installation i have all custom settings and background. i managed that by renaming 2 profile folders.

administrator to default.

and default to administrator.

in order to keep all my personal settings. i need this because i need to install 20 computers at once.

and with this CD the instalation only takes about 25 min.

 

when i had the server ready i created a standard user and tried to login on the client machine but it said

"profile service failed the logon.

profile cannot be loaded" i looked into that tried several ways.

until i logged on as domain administrator.

thats when i figured out i should add domain admins to the user.

so in order to login i have to be domain admin. and with roaming profiles i only have to login 1 time.

and i could logon without having domain admin rights.

 

now my colleague says he wants a different way. without giving the user domain admin rights. is that possible.

or is it possible to automatically add domain admin group on creating a new domain user.

 

i dont see why you would go trough all trouble if its just a simple clicks of add domain admin and login/off remove domain admin.

 

im just an IT student so yeah not too exp with Group policies .

[mmthomas]

It is probably a permissions issue. When you renamed the default and admin folders, did you swap permissions, too? The default folder is going to have read access for everyone, while the admin folder had permissions limited to system and administrators, most likely.

 

Here is the Microsoft recommended method for updating the default user profile in Win7.

[ITanimal]

thnx fo the reply.

we also came to the conclusion of permission problems and havent resolved the issue yet.

but its Winodws 7 and they made permissions for these profile folders extremey difficult. so its not that easy of swapping permissions.

but anyways ill resort to a windows 7 forums since this is for server 2008:)