Microsoft Windows 2000
Server Administrator's Companion
by Sharon Crawford & Charlie Russel
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 User Profile Setting Not Being Maintained on Server

NETBIOS names no longer get resolved to their fully qualified DNS names. You have to configure the profile, home, shared, and application directories using fully qualified DNS names in the form of   \\mycomputer.mydomain.com\myshare.

Problem:

The old NETBIOS names keep reappearing wherever the roaming user logs on.  Changes made at the workstation will work fine until the user logs off.  When the user logs back on, the workstation has reverted to the earlier configuration.

Solution:

Use Registry Editor to add the following registry value (or modify it, if the value already exists):

Key:   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value:   UserEnvDebugLevel
Value Type:   REG_DWORD
Value Data:   0x10002 (Hex)

After you make this change, restart the computer.  The log file is written to the %systemroot%\Debug\Userenv.log file.

Confirm that the profile is getting read and written to the server correctly.  Use REGEDT32 to load and view the server based profile (ntuser.dat) using the steps defined in Knowledge Base article Q146050: Modifying Ntuser.dat Hive So New Users Get Defined Settings.