216865 - registry.dat and prefs.js contain absolute path which conflicts with NT roaming profiles

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 137006

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Both registry.dat (in %APPDATA%/mozilla) and prefs.js in user profile contail
absolute path of profile itself and folders in it. However with NT domain
roaming profiles this path may change for user on different machines, sometimes
even on the same machine. Typicaly, user profiles reside in C:\documents and
settings on win2k/XP, in c:\winnt\profiles on NT4. When NT4 is upgraded to
win2k, profile path is also c:\winnt\profiles. If user with roaming profile logs
on such two machines,  the profile mey be inaccessible (or at least local
mailboxes).

This problem is very common in Novel Netware network with zenworks when dynamic
users are delete on logout but profiles not (or cannot be deleted because of
error). On next logon user profile resides in ...\username.000 instead of
...\username

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in with account using roaming profiles, configure mozilla
2. log out
3. log in on machine with different profile path

Actual Results:  
Mozilla cannot find it's own profile, or cannot update prefs.js and cannot
access local mailboxes

Expected Results:  
There should be variables in paths (both registry.dat na prefs.js), e.g.
%APPDATA%\mozilla\Default User\kiuvpu1f.slt instead of c:\documents and
settings\user\mozilla\Default User\kiuvpu1f.slt

The only solution is to create Mozilla profile on fixed place (e.g. network
drive), then the only files copied during NT roaming profile operations are
registry.dat and pluginreg.dat

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this are two bug (one for registry.dat and one for prefs.js) and both are dupes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137006 ***

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

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