[THIN] Re: IMA crashes after changing user profile root

  • From: "Matt Kosht" <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:47:32 -0400

I was able to get the one server to work by re-installing Citrix, but
changing these values in ProfileImagePath is MUCH easier.  Tks very
much for the tip.
-matt

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM, TSguy92 Lan <tsguy92@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> The registry value you adjusted defines the location of where NEW profiles
> to the system would be created at. As well, of course, this setting is also
> where windows will look for the default users and all user's folders to base
> a new user's profile from.
>
> Any Existing profiles already on the system prior to you updating that
> registry value, will already have their paths defined as being on
> C:\documents and settings.
>
> To adjust existing profiles, you'd need to comb through the \ProfileList sub
> keys, and under the SID's adjust the value for "ProfileImagePath" to the new
> location that you've copied the local profiles too.
>
> The only user account that IMA should care about is the CitrixSMA account.
> If you're doing a re-install of MF, either, update the ProfileImagePath for
> the CitrixSMA user, or make sure that that account, it's profile and it's
> listing under \profilelist is cleared off the system before you re-install.
>
> HTH
>
> Lan
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Matt Kosht <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't but I can try that. Tks.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jim Medeiros <jmedpc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Did you try changing the registry and then install PS4.0?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Matt Kosht <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I built a new Citrix PS4.0/Windows 2003 server over the weekend. I was
>> >> testing a performance tweak to put the user profiles on a seperate
>> >> physical disk vs. the same disk as the apps and OS.  I changed the
>> >> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current
>> >> Version\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory from the default of
>> >> %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings to Z:\Documents and Settings  (Z:
>> >> being the seperate physical disk with nothing else on it, but the
>> >> swapfile).  From the old profile root I copied Citrix_Sma, Default
>> >> User, All Users into the new profile root.  This worked (or so I
>> >> thought). When I tested a login the users roaming profile created in
>> >> the correct area.  When I rebooted the server however, the IMA service
>> >> refused to start with error code -2147483647.  I found this KB article
>> >> http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX101949 which confirms this change
>> >> caused the issue, but I am wondering how I could make IMA work with
>> >> the new profile location.
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