I want to know if there is a solution for this problem.
I have computers in the network that are not part of the domain, so people log in locally to those computers and they have their user account in there. However I need to put this computers back in the domain. The problem is that if they log in to the domain they will get a new user profile and they have to reconfigure all their settings and that will give me lots of trouble. Is there a way to import the settings from their local account to their new profile?
(The server runs on Windows 2000 server and the workstations run Windows 2000 Professional.)
Thank you very much.

Of course. When the user logs into the machine with his/her domain account, a new profile will be created. All you need to do is then login with your Admin account and copy the old user profile to the new one. If you need detailed instructions, let me know.

I tried that but:
Outlook needs to be reconfigured, MS Office pops up an installer window that fails, the user now does not have permission to certain files of software that was installed previously to put the workstation in the domain.
I started working here not long ago. From what I know, their server crashed like 6 months ago. I don't know how they fixed this problem since I cannot contact the person that fixed it. The workstations I'm talking about were originally in the domain but for some reason they are not now so I'm trying to put them back in.
Actually, I am a programmer and I have no experience with netowrking issues, but I am the only person they could go for help.

Thank you.

These ppl logging on to the domain with the same user ID that they were logging into locally? Shouldn't be much of an issue if they are. Are they admins or power users on the local computer, or you got them locked down?

They are power users, yes.
Will moveuser.exe help me with this?

Same user ID also.

The first thing is to logon to the system as the user prior to trying the domain logon.

Right click on My Computer, select Properties and then User Profiles.

Check the user's profile for date and size.

Close the window.

Now logon to the domain as the user. Don't try the startup for Outlook or anything at this time.

Shut down, restart and logon as the administrator.

Right click on My Computer and go to User Profiles again.

You should see the user listed with a basic profile that matches the one you saw as the user and the a domain one that is smaller.

Highlight the original user profile and select Copy To. Browse to the directory for the domain/user.

Run the copy and wait for the profile to finish copying. We use the administrator since there are share files that will not copy correctly if you are logged on as the user.

Logoff as administrator and then logon as the domain user. If there were no errors you should be able to run the applications the same as the no domain logon.

I use this method to transfer when changing domains too.

Good luck
Richard

alebider said that the Copy method was tried and didn't work. Although I don't know why it didn't...if it was done correctly.

The only way to make sure that the copy method might work is be logged on as administrator and do the profile copy. If you try while logged on as yourself there will be failures due to sharing violations. The MS method which has been most successful for me has been the profile copy I listed. There are people I have discussed this with who do it by just doing a file copy, but you still need to be logged on as administator to be successful.

Richard

Richard, I don't disagree with you. That's why in my first post I asked the originator to state whether or not instructions on the proper method to Copy a profile were needed.

I'm sorry for my late reply. I was out of town for a while.
I tried copying again and it worked just fine. I did it wrongly the first time, I'm sorry. I understand what's going on now.

Thank you so much, it was really nice of you to help me out.