My Documents Homedrive

[Bezwick]

Curious problem, hoping someone can help me with.

We have our student my documents folder redirected using group policies to

\\server\year$\%username%

It all works fine, except recently i have noticed that some of the students homespaces when looked at from the server reay as lots of my documents folders instead of their usernames. Anyone know whats causing this as its a real pain when trying to fina a students work on the server.
The permissions are remaining correct and the students are not having any problems saving its just difficult to find their homespace when i need to find or restore files.

We are running a Windows Server 2008 R2 network mostly with Windows XP, and a few Windows 7 clients.

Anyone have any ideas as it seams to be spreading to more and more students. So far staff have been unaffected.

Cheers

[caffrey]

Funny thing, this just happened to me today

I found this, When you redirect the Documents folder on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7-based computer to a network share, the folder name unexpectedly changes back to Documents and Redirected My Documents folders showing as ‘Documents’ rather than the users name « Weird & Wonderful IT


I've not tried to fix it yet, just wondered how other people are fixing this?

[DAZZD88]

I've not tried to fix it yet, just wondered how other people are fixing this?

I hate to be the guy to say it but there are many posts on here about this, some by myself and they include solutions too. A search should bring up some threads.

[glennda]

if you do a directory listing from the command line it comes up correctly - its an win 7/2k8r2 bug

[Bezwick]

Just tried their deleting the desktop.ini file at logoff and it appears to solve the problem. Brilliant

[caffrey]

I hate to be the guy to say it but there are many posts on here about this, some by myself and they include solutions too. A search should bring up some threads.

heh I know, just this happened to be the first thread when i searched, I was alread actively seeking a solution

tbh this solution seems easier

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.

[Michael]

That looks like one of my quotes Caffrey

[caffrey]

yeah sorry about that, i'd already cut and pasted and forgot where i got it from!

thanks

[FN-GM]

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.

@Michael and others.
Does anyone know a way in group policy to deploy this change on mass please?

Thanks

[Michael]

@Michael and others.
Does anyone know a way in group policy to deploy this change on mass please?

Thanks

It's a good question. I explored this sometime ago and there is no documented method. It's something Microsoft may introduce in Windows Server 8.

I just created a small userguide for staff who required this option.

[malath84]

Hello,
This might help,
Try using AutoIt3 for creating share or map drive instead of roaming their documents.