There's a thread here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/a9ef96fb-1e20-469c-b1ea-306846f46181
...that implicates the winlogon process, and indicates a few possible fixes and troubleshooting options. Aside from the ideas mentioned, I've had good results in similar situations logging access/activity with Mark Russinovich's (sysinternals) Process Monitor and ADinsight: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897539 Best of luck. On 14 May 2012 13:54, Donny Brooks <dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, May 12, 2012 04:48 PM CDT, Christian Meier <ch2...@arcor.de> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:02 +0200 > > Christian Meier <ch2...@arcor.de> wrote: > > > > > Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing > > > users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. > > > > Some reasons for this behavior I googled: > > > > 1. insufficient permissions for profile-folder > > 2. "trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain > > failed." --> dis-join and rejoin the workstation > > 3. .bak is appended in registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft > > \Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Remove the other SIDs and the > > ".bak" extension. > > 4. do not use roaming profiles. (But there are other problems with > > folder redirection [1].) > > > > [1] > > > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Windows_Profiles#Folder_Redirection > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > We too have seen this behavior but only on one of our pc's. It is not the > server side that gets the rename as someone else mentioned but rather on > the PC side. If you look in C:\Users\ you will see: > > username > username.DOMAIN > username.DOMAIN.000 > username.DOMAIN.001 > username.DOMAIN.002 > etc > > The profile seems to be pulling/writing to the server just fine. We have > tried removing all the entries in the registry for all users on the machine > except the local administrator one, removing/rejoining the pc to the > domain, and double checking permissions all to no avail. It will do "right" > for a few weeks and then it will start doing the multiple profiles again. > To this date we have not found a way to fix the issue. > -- > Donny B. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba