Creating new user profile

[pea33nut]

We have Microsoft Windows 2000 server and in some departments they do a reboot once a week on their local pc. For some reason it creates a new profile for the generic name that we give them to logon with. It will add a . then an extention like our domain name or even mimic the username. ex. test.test. This is bad because then they have no access to their documents. Can someone tell me why this is happening and how I can fix it.

Thx

 

[DaiShan]

Ok, in a domain setting the local machine has two options
1) Domain logon - this will result in a profile that is created for the domain and will have the ACL policies associated with their account
2) Local user - this refers to a user who logs on to the machine only and does not authenticate against the PDC nor do they have access to the network shares.

Files owned by one user (domain vs local) cannot be modified by another user (exception: Administrator) So what you need to do is either have everyone authenticate to the PDC or have everyone use a local logon, not both.