I am a tech in a local school system and we have many labs in the many
buildings we have that usually contain 30 computers all set up the same way
with the same hardware and we use the newest ghost release to image them. I
know hold the ghost comments it is what I have to work with. We are getting
an error that says. Windows cannot log you on and will have to load the
default profile or a small box with a red X in it and an ok button. Either
one you get takes you right back to the logon where it wants you to hit Cntrl
Alt Dlt.
We use the creating a local profile and copying to default user in this
situation also.
Now I Think this is a unloading of the profile in the hive issue but we
tried the hive cleaner from Microsoft and it did not work it appears. Some of
the machines I loaded it on still do this.
I know long shot here any clues anyone on what I should attempt or an area
to look at. I was thinking maybe active directory???? We use local profiles
not roaming
If on NTFS, there may be restrictive permissions on the copied profile which
are preventing it from being loaded. If the SIDs of the user on this computer
and the source computer differ (which ideally they should) then it will not
be possible to open the profile. To correct this you need to grant
permissions to Everyone, recursively.
There may be a disk-signature in the MBR leftover from a previous use of the
hard disk. If so, you need to use a hex editor to get rid of it. The effect
of this is to force a change of the system driveletter, partway through the
boot process.
"Lantech" wrote:
> I am a tech in a local school system and we have many labs in the many
> buildings we have that usually contain 30 computers all set up the same way
> with the same hardware and we use the newest ghost release to image them. I
> know hold the ghost comments it is what I have to work with. We are getting
> an error that says. Windows cannot log you on and will have to load the
> default profile or a small box with a red X in it and an ok button. Either
> one you get takes you right back to the logon where it wants you to hit Cntrl
> Alt Dlt.
This is a belated reply, but I had a similar problem in Vista on user
account maintenance. Here was the solution:
It came to light as a result of installing a multiboot setup.
If anyone knows a more direct channel to get this bug report to Vista
developers, please let me know.
Recently I installed a multiboot setup of Server, x64 and x86. In moving to
this arrangement, I renamed my original administrator account names in these
installations in order to distinguish them better. Instead of UserName for
the two Vista installs, I chose UserName x64 and UserName x86, by going to
Control Panel -> Add User Accounts -> [click on existing account icon] ->
Change Account Name.
On reboot both into x64 and into x86, Vista could not find the user profiles
and loaded defaults.
On inspection of the registry entries, it turned out Vista had not bothered
to modify the account name provided at the original install of the OS; in
the registry, the path for the relevant user profile was still listed as
UserName, instead of being updated to UserName x64 and UserName x86.
Since updating the registry entries, the problem has not recurred for those
accounts.
I did not verify whether this bug exists in Server 2008. (In Server, I kept
the original administrative account name, never making modifications.)
"Anteaus" wrote:
> Two things to check here:
>
> If on NTFS, there may be restrictive permissions on the copied profile which
> are preventing it from being loaded. If the SIDs of the user on this computer
> and the source computer differ (which ideally they should) then it will not
> be possible to open the profile. To correct this you need to grant
> permissions to Everyone, recursively.
>
> There may be a disk-signature in the MBR leftover from a previous use of the
> hard disk. If so, you need to use a hex editor to get rid of it. The effect
> of this is to force a change of the system driveletter, partway through the
> boot process.
>
> "Lantech" wrote:
>
> > I am a tech in a local school system and we have many labs in the many
> > buildings we have that usually contain 30 computers all set up the same way
> > with the same hardware and we use the newest ghost release to image them. I
> > know hold the ghost comments it is what I have to work with. We are getting
> > an error that says. Windows cannot log you on and will have to load the
> > default profile or a small box with a red X in it and an ok button. Either
> > one you get takes you right back to the logon where it wants you to hit Cntrl
> > Alt Dlt.
>
Windows cannot load your profile 
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