User profiles in 2003 Terminal Services

[madman045]

Can anyone tell me how I can get user accounts to use just one profile folder located somewhere else?

2003 Server with Terminal Services, no AD installed, just local accounts.

When the users log on via Terminal Services, I have specified a profile path on another drive for their terminal services profile & it has created them & it writes to them, but it has also created a local profile in documents and settings being local users, how can I stop it for using the local profile folder & only the TS profile?

Thanks

[badass]

Can anyone tell me how I can get user accounts to use just one profile folder located somewhere else?

2003 Server with Terminal Services, no AD installed, just local accounts.

When the users log on via Terminal Services, I have specified a profile path on another drive for their terminal services profile & it has created them & it writes to them, but it has also created a local profile in documents and settings being local users, how can I stop it for using the local profile folder & only the TS profile?

Thanks

Windows works with profiles by copying the entire contents of their roaming profile to the local profile location, then using the local profile. It them copies the local profile to the roaming profile location when they log off. You can change the local profile location, but it is still needed.
To change the profile location, you need to have 2 accounts with admin privelages and. Log on as 1 of teh admin accounts and copy all of the profiles to the new location bar the one you are logged on with. Log on as the other one and copy the profile you have not copied.

open regedit and goto HKLM\software\microsoft\Windows NT\currentversion\profilelist\
change the profilesdirectory value to the new location and all of teh subkeys will have a value in them called profileimagepath. Change the values to their new locations for every one APART from the key S-1-5-18
If you dont understand what the bit after I say run regedit does straight away, do not do it. Youw will probably bugger your server up.

[madman045]

Thanks Badass, will give it a try.