Your Roaming Profile is Not Available Event ID: 1506 & 1500

[mikebccd]

I’m having a strange problem with some of our Kid users who have Roaming Profiles and Redirected “My Documents.”

Some of them cannot log-on and I get the message about Roaming Profile is not available.... and Profile cannot be loaded – see attached screen shots

If I create a new user by copying a users profile that CAN log-on correctly and just give the new user a name /password new name, the correct new user folder is automatically created in the “Users Home” directory on the server, but the new user cannot log-on despite having the same user attributes as the user that can logon successfully.
As far as I can see everything, permissions etc is the same as the user that CAN log-on, it seems exactly the same- as it should as a copy.

I Can find the specified path by typing into Run/Explorer – it works

Any suggestions?
Mike at Christian Care Foundation for Disabled Children in Thailand
please check out our web site www.ccdthailand.org

[mikebccd]

I think I cracked it!

I had 2 separate issues

Log-in failure and Redirection

Log-in was solved by following the folowing proceedure kindly supplied previously by Joanne Lowery - thanks Joanne.

"Believe it or not, but you are working the problem too hard. Kill off the suspect profile on the server. Make sure that the UNC path to the profile exists e.g \\servername\profiles$. In the user account in AD set the user profile path to \\servername\profiles$\%username% (%username% will convert to your users login name). Have the user login on their workstation. If the profile already exists on the workstation see if you can "Change Type" it to roaming. Set up all the usual gumpf with mail, printers etc. Log the user out. This last step populates the profile on the server. (Note that by default the admin account does not have permissions to the profile. You will get access denied errors). Next time the user logs in the profile will be roaming."
Posted: 01/02/2006 @ 09:33 PM (PST)

Joanne Lowery

and Secondly I had been messing with permissions in the users Redirected folder trying to get Administrator access and some users couldn't get to their redirectred folders - this was solved by following the proceedure in microsft article ID: 288911
Enabling the Administrator to have access to redirected folders.
...this permissions business is a bit arcane, so I don't think I would have got there by myself!
Hope this helps somone
cheers
Mike