Roaming Profile Not Working When Using Services With Same Account

• 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.
  
  -or-



• 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 

Last Reviewed: January 27, 1999