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Rep Power: 25 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | How deep is the path that you are mapping to i've seen this when the folder path is long. Where is the path set it it via logon script or in the user account settings? What client and server OS are you using? Are you seeing this on machines in a particular area and when you do are there any errors in the event log? Cheers. |
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Rep Power: 9 ![]() | XP Pro SP2 -Server 2003 Path is set voa user account Happens on machines all overr netowrk also seperate buildings File path is on 3 deep. i.e homedirs\yeargroup\user |
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Rep Power: 26 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I've seen this problem, it is fairly common surprisingly! The most common fix is to turn on the policy 'always wait for network at computer startup/logon' although this can slow down your network a bit, but it does seem to solve this problem. I also found a good idea was to remove the users rights to the root folder, and only give the users rights to the necessaryfolder above it that they need. A lot of people don't believe this works, saying they need at least read only access to the folder(s) below it in the tree in order to access their home folder, but after testing it myself I can assure you this does work. e.g. If I had the local directory structure on my server of f:\students\2004\04smithjack and the folder f:\students was the shared root folder holding all the home areas, I would have directory security setup as follows: f:\students - Domain admins and system only f:\students\2004 - Domain admins and system only f:\students\2004\04smithjack - domain admins, system and 04smithjack Most setups I've come across have the 'all students' group or 'users' group set as read only on the two lower folders, but it isn't needed. The H:\ drive can still be mapped to \\server\students\2004\04smithjack with no problems, but if it tries to map h:\ to \\server\students then it won't let them as the user has no direct permissions to that folder. It also stops them using the 'up' button to get to your server root and network, which is handy! ????: EduGeek.net Forums http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/22002-users-home-drive-mappping-intermittantly.html You can then use a VBS script or simelar to check for the existance of H:\ at logon and to re-instate the correct drive mapping where neccessary, as if it's gone to map it at logon and failed due to the user not having permissions on the root folder, there will be no drive now, so a simple VBS script can sort out the missing drive, and no one knows any different! Hope that's of help! Mike. Last edited by maniac; 14-07-2008 at 06:36 PM.. |
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Rep Power: 42 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | If you don't have read from the root to the folder then office complains bitterly every time you try to save. Also window installer gets quite upset at times complaining that the path is invalid. At least thats what happened when I had it like that. |
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Rep Power: 26 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Quote: The recommended way is to have a root share and use NTFS permissions to control access as is already done. The problem described is bantered about on many different forums too. You would have though Micro$oft would have fixed it by now! On my network we simply re-directed the my documents folder to point at H:\ If you had the option ticked in Group Policy to 're-direct to the users home folder' then this can cause a problems if the %homepath% variable is wrong (which is what causes this problem the first place) therefore we found it more reliable to refer to it by the drive letter. Mike. Last edited by maniac; 14-07-2008 at 07:07 PM.. | |
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Rep Power: 79 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | My biggest site has over 400 users in total and don't experience any slow down. Clients are 10/100 or wireless and server operating at gigabit. I don't believe the entire list is sent to each workstation. In AD I simply map the drive as H:\ and \\server\user$ Under Folder Redirection, My Documents is set to: Target tab Basic - Redirect everyone's folder to the same location Redirect to the user's home directory Settings tab Enable - Move the contents of My Documents to the new location Leave the folder in the new location when the policy is removed |
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Rep Power: 25 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Yes 'always wait for network at computer startup/logon' is where i was heading next before i got called away. We tend to go with the single root share and NTFS permissions here as well, the main disadvantage to having hundreds of shares is that they're created at each boot up and they take more management but other thatn that it really doesn't matter. Last edited by cookie_monster; 14-07-2008 at 08:20 PM.. |
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Yes true maniac this works for users as long as you don't require file synchronisation. If you do use file sync then the user requires read only at the root of the folder structure and only to that folder and not sub folders as they then could read other peoples data. Just thought I would say this in case people config laptop users as maniac says. For this reason here all users via a security group are granted read only on the root folders but not on any sub folder. Last edited by jsnetman; 15-07-2008 at 06:51 AM.. | |
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Rep Power: 25 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | @ jsnetman: have they not fixed that in SP3 i remember ages ago moaning about this issue and i'm sure i read that this behaviour was to be altered in SP3. |
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Rep Power: 13 ![]() ![]() ![]() | Not sure about that, we have just moved to sp3 on curriculm PC's laptops are stll sp2 so I go with the tried and trusted way. There is absolutely no harm in giviing read access to the root folder, as I say as long as they don't have permissions for sub folders. |
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