1. After many years, I've learned NEVER to use anything but A to Z and 0 to 9 in the name of the server. You can gripe about this to Microsoft, but this is what I've learned and I'll share this.
2. You didn't mention the NT 4's condition. Did you reapply SP6 and all patches since then?
3. Did you reapply SP6 on the NT 4 box? It's not "sticky" and any changes you make sometimes will undo a patch.
4. No mention of adding the user to the NT 4 users?
5. Mappings and such may indeed vanish. You often find that login scripts are needed.
Sadly, I can't help too much with NT 4.0 anymore. Due to the security problems that Microsoft left unpatched, our last NT 4.0 servers and workstations were removed some months ago. I will NOT be able to duplicate much, but will share from my prior years of running NT 4.0 servers and workstations.
Bob
Hi,
I have installed on a new machine win xp pro and have a domain controler server name MAIN-APEX under usermanager in that server i have a user as greggc with his passw defined and everything is ok cause is basicly the same stuff for the other users, in this new workstation i can logon to that server with a diff username as ws301 but when i use the greggc i can't in fact if when i am login on it i got the message, "windows can not locate the server copy of your roaming profile" then after that i got this other message "user will use a local profile " and then i am able to browse all the server but if i add some mappings and do some arragements in the desktop and i logout, the next time i logon with greggc all the mappings and changes i did in that worskst they got lost, why i can't keep those settings in that workst I checked the folder documents and settings and there is a folder for greggc, i can see under the profiles the administrator and the ws301 profile on this worskt but not the greggc, is there any limitations for profiles in that workst for win xp pro, the user greggc in that workstation is setup as administrator but i can not keep any settings on this one and when i check the event viewer in the server i see that this computer can not be authenticate by the winnt 4.0 but i can see it under the network neightboord and even the c drive that is in share mode, any suggestion why i can not logon with this particular username ?
thanks a lot
Ernesto

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