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On our network, when the user is logged on a PC and then tries to login on his laptop he is getting this error: " Windows cannot copy "..\%username%\Application Data\firefox\profiles....\parent.lock file to the local C:..."
I have tried deleting the profiles and also uninstalled firefox, but nothing…
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Hi,
Due to some issue (items reappearing after being deleted), I'd like to check the content of my remotely-stored roaming profile.
Is the path stored somewhere locally? I'm not a domain admin, and I don't have direct access to the Active Directory.
Thanks!
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We are running an ActiveDirectory environment with Windows 2008 as DC and Samba 3.3 as fileserver, using roaming profiles.
Some of our offices are connected to HQ via slowish links (1/2 Mbit). Naturally this is not very fast but that was expected.
What I do not understand is, that if a user logs…
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I'm having some serious issues getting a group of users to stop using roaming profiles.
As expected, I have roaming profiles enabled accross the domain. - But am doing GPO filtering, limiting the scope. I originally had it set to authenticated users for Roaming, but as the domain has branched out…
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On my work PC, Firefox stores a 10 MB file called places.sqlite in my roaming profile:
C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\PROFILE_ID\places.sqlite
I don't use any location-related features in Firefox, and this file causes my roaming profile to be larger than my company…
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Hi,
Due to some issue (items reappearing after being deleted), I'd like to check the content of my remotely-stored roaming profile.
Is the path stored somewhere locally? I'm not a domain admin, and I don't have direct access to the Active Directory.
Thanks!
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Hello friends,
is it possible to exclude one machine from syncing its profile with the server?
The situation is as follows:
Our CEO wants to use her semi-private laptop in our network, which means she wants to be able to log in with her account (to be able to access files and all) but does not…
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Hi all,
When a particular user is having a lot of problems with Windows XP e.g. applications crashing, unresponsive applications (which used to work), and as a general troubleshooting practice for a domain user, I normally rename that user's old profile and get him/her to logon to create a "fresh"…
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I thought I cleared a user's profile from 2008, but it keeps coming back. So, I was looking for the best way to clear a roaming profile in Server 2008, but I have been unable to find anything.
But, I did see the post here:
http://serverfault.com/questions/18724/user-profile-keeps-loading-temp-profile
I…
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I'm reconfiguring roaming profiles on my network to use proper NTFS security settings according to this article. I have reset the following permissions on the roaming profile parent folder:
CREATOR OWNER, Full Control, Subfolder and files only
User group with profiles, List folder, Create folders…
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