Failed To Set Security On The Destination Profile Error Access
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Join INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMSFOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS Log In Come Join Us! Are you aComputer / IT professional?Join Tek-Tips Forums! Talk With Other Members Be Notified Of ResponsesTo Your Posts Keyword Search One-Click Access To YourFavorite Forums Automated SignaturesOn Your Posts Best Of All, It's Free! Join Us! *Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Posting Guidelines Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.Tek-Tips Posting Policies https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21478656/Failed-to-set-Security-on-the-Destination-Profile-error-Access-is-denied.html Jobs Jobs from Indeed What: Where: jobs by Link To This Forum! Add Stickiness To Your Site By Linking To This Professionally Managed Technical Forum.Just copy and paste the BBCode HTML Markdown MediaWiki reStructuredText code below into your site. Microsoft: Windows XP Pro Forum at Tek-Tips HomeForumsDesktop SoftwarePC Operating SystemsMicrosoft: Windows XP Pro Forum http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1264480 "Copy to" function fails thread779-1264480 Forum Search FAQs Links MVPs "Copy to" function fails "Copy to" function fails rrdavis07 (MIS) (OP) 9 Aug 06 00:16 I have recently set up a domain at a client's site.Most of the users have a local profile already set up.Everyone needs a new profile to log onto the domain, so after profile creation, I'm using the "Copy To" function to copy their old profile's settings, documents, etc to the new profile.Most of the time this procedure works flawlessly, but on 3 of the computers the process fails with an error stating that Security Rights have not been set on the destination folder. Upon checking the rights on the folder (which is the username folder under Documents and Settings), they appear to be correct.Or at least the rights are identical to the rights on other machines where the "Copy To" function ran without error.This problem has been talked about several times on this board, but none of the answer
27, 2006. Guest Challenge 1 : When I tried to copy the user profile of one administrator user account (let's call it A) in Windows XP home edition to another user account (let's call it B) , the advice given on http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/copying-user-profile-from-one-user-account-to-another-user-account-on-the-same-conputer-3-chall.2415685/ the web is: Create a new user account (let's call it C). Then restart computer. Then log http://www.justskins.com/forums/cannot-copy-one-particular-93157.html into C to effect the change. Then restart computer ( this may or may not be necessary , I don't remember). The log back into C to start the transfer from A to B . In account C, Right click "My Computer" --- > Properties ---- > Advanced --- > User Profiles --- > Settings . Highlight A , click "Copy To" and then specify the destination failed to path as C:\Documents and Settings\User Account Name. I am told this is all I have to do. If I do not follow the above procedure , I will find that "Copy To" is grayed out and I cannot do any copying. OK, this grayed out challenge is solved. But the next challenge is : When I click "Copy To" , I get the message , "failed to set security on the destination profile". The source of this challenge seems to be in account user failed to set A. So I go into account A , I right click the owner folder ( at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner ) ---- > Properties --- > Sharing --- > "Make the folder private" (needs to uncheck this). How this owner folder had that checkmark in the first place is probably when I set up user account A to stop others from having access to my computers when I am not around, I went to Start --- > Control Panel ---- > Switch to Category View --- > User Accounts" And when I created a password, Windows asked me "Do you want to make your files and folders private?" and I clicked "Yes, Make Private" OK, uncheck that box in owner folder properties and also delete the passwords used by account A and B and this second challenge is solved. No more "failed to set security on the destination profile" message. The next challenge is when A is being copied to B , I get messages such as "Windows cannot copy file C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Start Menu\Programs\Folder View\Visit Folder View Website.lnk to location C:\Documents and Settings\Surfing\Start Menu\Programs\Folder View\Visit Folder View Website.lnk. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. " I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with Folder View per se. Becuase I tried to find out if this error message is consi
user - Windows Setup, Administration & Security I am trying to copy one user to another. I am able to do this with any user except one particular user. When coping users in the SYSTEM PROPERTIES window, ADVANCED tab, USER PROFILE SETTINGS, I get the following message for one particular user. "Failed to set Security on the Destination Profile. Error - Access is denied." I believe this particular user that I am copying from is the one that was first made during installation and had the option to "MAKE FILES PRIVATE" which I clicked on. Can someone help me out here? Thanks Perry... Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode July 1st,04:30 PM #1 Cannot copy one particular user I am trying to copy one user to another. I am able to do this with any user except one particular user. When coping users in the SYSTEM PROPERTIES window, ADVANCED tab, USER PROFILE SETTINGS, I get the following message for one particular user. "Failed to set Security on the Destination Profile. Error - Access is denied." I believe this particular user that I am copying from is the one that was first made during installation and had the option to "MAKE FILES PRIVATE" which I clicked on. Can someone help me out here? Thanks Perry perry Guest July 1st,04:35 PM #2 Re: Cannot copy one particular user Is the user you are trying to copy the same as the user you are currently logged on? "perry"