Event ID: 1000 Userenv

Hope some one can help with this one?
we have a nt 4.0 domain with a few computers running windows 2000 and when a new user to this specific computer trys to logon we get the following error:-

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/08/2003
Time: 14:41:51
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: Undisclosed
Description:
Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.

DETAIL - Access is denied.

tried looking at the micro$oft technet site with no help.

 

Is the problem specific to this particular user?

If other users can log onto the domain using this computer, than it's a user profile problem, while if no other users can log onto the domain on this computer, than it's probably a networking issue.

 

if they have logged on before then they are logged on if a new user tries to logon the error is displayed

doesn't seem to be a network error cause i can ping other machines.

 

It sounds like the workstation is trying to load the profile from a domain controller, but it can't find the profiles, so it just loads them from the workstation.

In your PDC do you have all the user accounts set up with the passwords? If so are the profiles set to roaming or are they still local?

The reason users can that have logged before get no error message, is because the workstation created a profile on it's HDD for that user, so it just loads that by default.

 

There was a known 2K bug with SP1/2 that caused this on some PCs. SP3 was supposed to fix the problem and did with some systems. Not all. SP4 seems to have gotten rid of it for all that I'm aware of.

So if you aren't already running SP4 on the workstations, give it a try.

 

Thanks NewT thought it might be this as some of our systems are servicevpacked up to 3 and above and they don't have this problem.

Thanks again users