Win2k-Novell and Active Directory

[SaigonK]

So here is a wierd one...

I have some workstations that are experiencing roaming profile issue.

Novell 5.x server, NDS 8.5, Windows 2000 Desktops with Novell Client 4.8-SP3.
A user goes to logon to the netowrk, but instead of getting their profile it creates a generic account and thus they have none of their personal settings.

I dropped the desktop onto Sniffer Pro and did a capture, found out that the workstations are requesting out to Port 445 (Active directory) and when they hit the novell server (obviously) they get access denied.
My question is what might be casuing them to search out an AD ? There are no policies enabled on the box, and i know that they will make a request for AD automatically and there is no way to shut that off..(been there..tried that with Microsoft) but what i cant figure is why the profile wont come down to the local workstation...give the user a local profila dn of course everything goes A-Ok.


Anyone... . ?
Need some real hardcore gurus on this one

SK

 

[SaigonK]

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[neuralfx]

Ok, for one, I'm not sure you mean by "what is causing it to search ad" .. that is what it has to do to even be able to log on, maybe I misunderstand you ..
But anyway, ok so I assume you have already been in AD Users and Computers and set the path to the roaming profile on the server yes? and the directory is shared? Ok, also you should also change the directory name of the profile to user.man or whatever, note that if name the directory with the .man , it only means that the user MUST use the roaming profile and cannot log on with a local profile. Also, on your client go ahead and right click my computer, hit properties, and hit the User Profiles tabs, you can delete whatever you have there, if you have multiple copies of the same profile, and either delete them all or change one of them to "roaming" .. Try this, I have messed with profiles quite a bit, and roaming profiles mixed with GPO's in large class labs are no fun =( .. also i doubt it, but if you think the Novell box is having anything to do with it .. disconnect it for awhile, (unless it provides a vital service) , to eliminate variables .... well i hope this at least gives you some ideas .. good luck ..
-neural