Article ID: 232308
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
This article was previously published under Q232308
SYMPTOMS
When a user attempts to log on to a computer that is missing the default user profile, the logon request is denied and the following error message is displayed:
In addition, an empty folder is created in the %SystemRoot%\Profiles folder.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This is not fixed in Windows NT 4.0, including Service Pack 5.
MORE INFORMATION
The expected behavior is that no folder is created, because the user's logon request is denied. If the user tries many times to log on, many different folders named username.xxx (where username is the name of the user whose logon attempt was denied) are created in the %SystemRoot%\Profiles folder.
Keywords: kbprb KB232308
