Microsoft KB Archive/841844

= The home drive is set to drive C when you use a roaming user account to log on to Windows 2000 =

Article ID: 841844

Article Last Modified on 10/26/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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SYMPTOMS
If you use a roaming user account to log on to a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, and you verify your home drive settings by using the set home command, you find that the settings are incorrectly set to the following settings: HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\ The HOMESHARE path is not set.



Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required.

Restart requirement
You must restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Date        Time   Version         Size       File name -- 07-May-2004 22:07  5.0.2195.6928     335,120  Msgina.dll 05-Feb-2004 20:18  5.0.2195.6896   5,869,056  Sp3res.dll



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about a similar problem in Microsoft Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

833884 Home drive is set to drive C when you use a roaming user account to log on to Windows XP

For additional information about how hotfix packages are named, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

816915 New naming schema for Microsoft Windows software update packages

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

Additional query words: home drive roaming profile

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp5fix KB841844

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