Windows 7 Folder Redirection, Homeshare Renamed to My Documents

[bwestlake]

Hi,

As loads of you have probaly seen...
when you use folder redirection on the homeshare as documents it renames the users homeshare to my documents server side, you can still access it by going \\staff\data\%username% but when you look at them it comes up as a continuous list of my document folders, i know you can remove the desktop.ini ... but we dont want it as a logon or logoff script we want it to be a scheduled task.. the batch file i have created at the moment is:

ECHO Y | del "\\Staff\Data\desktop.ini" /S /A:H

but this deletes all desktop.ini including the ones in the home share for pictures music ect..

i have hurd that you can just changed the permisions on the desktop.ini file to some thing like:

FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %a in ('dir /b "\\staff\data\"') DO XCACLS "\\staff\data\%a\desktop.ini /D Administrator:R /Y"

would this work?

[ricki]

HI

The desktop.ini I had to delete as in the home folder of each user.

Richard

[mtdmitchell]

Either add the filename view Column when viewing users folders on the server (this will display the owner of the folder) or structure your Home directories correctly - Home directory/My documents

I'm Not keen on changing attributes for the desktop.ini as it may cause issues.

[Chunks_]

Hi,

This page might be of use to you .... delete desktop ini. Shows how to delete it using batch command. You can then attach it to a scheduled task to run occasionally.

I tend to add the filename in the view column myself although have used the script in the link above.

[TheScarfedOne]

Please see the sticky thread n this forum - the Hints and Tips one. It has all this covered already :-)

[Michael]

Have a look here for Folder Redirection tips how I do things.

Here's how to get round the My Documents issue without deleting anything!

Managing User Documents

Since Windows Vista and Windows 7, user home directories will all be renamed 'My Documents', but there's a simple way around this without using scripts!

Navigate to the folder where your home directories are located. Right click in the column 'Size' > 'More...'

Select 'Filename' in the list, then click OK. The username will now be displayed.