Hi,

 

I am attempting to join a few pcs to a sbs2003 domain. Both were upgraded from XP home to Pro. Both had previously connected to exchange as remote users and with Outlook over the Internet(and worked fine).

 

When I am logged on with the original local user account and run the connectcomputer wizard, it does allow me to pick the user name to migrate settings for. However, the migration fails due to what the wizard says are some folders that are "private". I  have followed through the instructions to check these private settings, and have found that none of the folders are private!

 

I have seen something similar to this issue mentioned here, but no resolution. Has anyone else seen this and have a solution?

 

Thanks,

 

Ernie Matern

Hi Ernie,

 

I too have had this problem more than once. The way I got it to work was to do as the warning dialog box suggests and go to the users folder in Documents and settings. Right click and click Sharing and Security. You should see that the Make this folder private is actually unchecked. Go ahead and check it to make the folder private then click apply. After a short while when the wizard has done it's thing UN-check the box, click apply and the wizard once again does it's thing. Run the ConnectComputer Wizard and the users stuff should migrate properly.

 

Hope it works,

 

Regards,

 

ERIC

Hi Chrys,

 

Media Center is not able to join a domain, unless you applied the 'banana hack' when installing Media Center.

Ran into this AGAIN today - not being able to join to the domain.  Happens about every 3rd time a client of mine gets a new computer and I join it to the domain. 

 

Found this KB article and it worked like a charm.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886210 - "The following user settings are private" error message when you try to migrate a user's profile to Windows Small Business Server 2003

 

Incidentally, my hunch is that this problem may correlate directly with the quantity of software updates, program installs, etc done PRIOR to joining the SBS client to the domain.  In my case, it was a folder in %userprofile%\local settings\temp called "hsperfdata_username"  which looks like it may have had something to do with the Java RE update i did before joining up the PC.
 

To boot, I have never gone back to uncheck the "Private" box and found it to be actually checked as such.  That's the advice given by the wizard, but has never been applicable for me. 

 

Hope this helps anyone who might be searching etc because this is one of those issues you face like every 6-9 months which is nearly impossible to remember the solution.

Yes I've come across this too on occasions. If I remember rightly, there is a log created somewhere on the local PC (can't remember where) of the connectcomputer process and this will tell you which files/folders are causing the issue. I think the error message you get specifies where this log file is stored. I too had trouble with:

 

%userprofile%\local settings\temp\hsperfdata_username

 

I just deleted the contents of the temp folder and it worked.