Windows 7 + Server 2008 = Pupils deleting folders when opening them!

[Koldov]

Hi All,

 

Just a really quick shout out!

 

I haven't searched here or researched this on t'interweb thingy yet as I've only just been told it's happening...

 

Over the holiday I put 7 on the ICT suite pc's, the server hold the home drive for the pupils and was fine for this class last year, it is not a newly created profile or home folder. All I've been told is that when the children double click to open their own folder they have created inside the home folder it just disappears!

 

Does anybody know what may cause this?!

 

Kol.

[round2it]

is this linked to the desktop.ini issue

 

delete the desktop.ini file from the home folder and see if it comes back

 

our homefolders appear to get renamed to my documents due to the desktop.ini file

 

worth a look sorry if im on the wrong path

[Koldov]

@round2it - I've had a quick look on their home drive through the server and on the 1 or 2 individual folders that are left in there, but couldn't see any desktop.ini files anywhere...

 

Just to clarify, I have gone for local profiles on these machines.

 

We only have 13 (!) classes and they create a local profile under their class name when they log on to each local machine.

 

Then they just save their work to a mapped home drive (H:\).

 

Does anybody see any issue with this set-up? 30 instances of the same user (class name) logging on to 30 different pc's... Is there some limit? Do you think this is why I'm having this problem? I log-on as admin to all the machines quite frequently and have never had a problem...

 

Kol.

[round2it]

Are the folders hidden?

[Koldov]

Are the folders hidden?

 

Do you mean have I got 'show hidden files, folders and drives' ticked in the folder view options? Yes, I have and I can see a thumbs.db file, so I know it's working.