Windowx XP - Server Side Profiles and Nvidia Display Driver

From: Hasslinger Stefan (Stefan.Hasslinger_at_CPSERVICES.AT)
Date: 08/25/04

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    Date:         Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:27:52 +0200
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    Read this if you have an Windows Environment with Server Side Profiles
    and Nvidia Display Drivers at some Desktops.

    Problem:
    We found out, that if you have NVIDIA Display Drivers installed which
    are offered arround MAY 2004 and later
    and you are yousing SSProfiles following error can occur:
    When an user is logging of a machine running Windows XP or Windows 2000
    the user profile is not written back
    to the wanted destination at the server.
    If you install the new NVIDIA Driver from the NVIDIA Homepage the same
    problem exists.

    Solution:
    Be sure, that the "NVIDIA Update" Service is not running. This (or more,
    we don't know) Parts of the NVIDIA Driver
    keeps the 2 Windows Files ntuser.dat, usrclass.dat opened util full
    shutdown.
    Because this files are opened and the system cannot cpopy openend files,
    the copy procedure of the user profile fails.
    We have found 3 Solutions to solve this problem:
    1. Use the Windows Integrated Device Drivers
    2. Use the Driver shipped with the System (ours are Fujitsu-Siemens),
    because there was no Update Part Included.
    We don't know if these solution works on other Systems.
    3. Try to isolate the Nvidia Update Service

    We told this problem to Nvidia but with no response.

    steve

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