Roaming Profiles with NW 4.11 and Windows 2K / XP

[Shawn Organ]

We are in the process of testing Windows XP for deployment in our
environment. We have a mixture of NW 4.11 and Netware 5.x servers. We are
using Zenworks 3.2 to manage both Dynamic Local Users and Roaming Profiles.
My initial tests for roaming profiles failed. When the user would log in,
the Windows NT 5.1 Workstation Profile directory is created and the
NTUSER.DAT file is copied up. When the user would logout, and the machine
would disconnect from the network, then an error message dialoge box pops up
stating "Windows can not save your roaming profile. Possible network or
security access issues"
I checked the Users Home Profile directory and noticed that the NTUSER.DAT
file was updated, but nothing else. After several days of no luck, I called
Novell tech Support. One of the things the tech had me do was to change the
user's Home Directory from a NW 4.11 server to a Netware 5.1 server. The
roaming profiles worked just great! The tech went on to say that since
Novell no longer supports 4.11, he could not help me troubleshoot problem
further.
My problem is that most of our Admin sites who will get the XP depolyment
are still 4.11 and won't be upgraded for months.
Long story short.... Has anyone had success getting roaming profiles to work
with Netware 4.11 Home Directories?

[Dom]

Hi Shawn

Seen this mentioned many times in this NG and I've had this problem for
ages. The only option that seems to work is backrevving the NWFS.SYS file
with the one from SP1. All others versions after that appear to break the
profiles getting written back to the server :-(

Isn't 4.11 + SP9 just the same as 4.2. Has the support on 4.2 expired yet ??

Cheers
Dom

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[Shawn Organ]

Thanks for the tip and the fix.
I used the NWFS.SYS dated 6/18/2002 and I can now save profiles to both NW
4.11 and NW 5.1 severs.
I haven't had a chance to do more testing to see what functionality I lose
by downgrading, but having profiles work is a good thing.
Thanks again
Shawn
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