%Logonserver% session variable doesn’t work on network Vista logon
Some grief today as I found that Vista wasn’t behaving with user profiles. Whenever a user attempted to logon, he or she would be greeted with the following popup:
Your user profile was not loaded correctly!
You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator.
How annoying is that message when you are the administrator?
Anyway, the event log was equally unhelpful:
Windows cannot locate the server copy of the roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with you local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you log off. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.
DETAIL – Access is denied.
What was weird was that some users were creating the username.v2 profiles.
After a bit of trial and error, I realised that the users that had a dynamic roaming profile path (such as %logonserver%\users\%username%) would not locate or create a profile in Windows Vista.
As soon as I replace %logonserver% with the name of a domain controller (\\server1\users\%username%), everything behaved itself.
This is pretty annoying, as I’d have to set up DFS to get around this. In the meantime, I’ve just changed the paths.
There is no evidence to suggest that this is by design, especially considering that using the SET command in Vista shows that the logonserver variable is indeed set.
ARGH!
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