Documents Redirection - Not Displayed in Libraries

[GeekyGav]

Hi all,

 

I had an issue this week where students were able to browse other students documents folders by drilling down through the system.

I have now fixed this by removing certain permissions from the Home Folders share folder.

 

The only NTFS permissions that now reside on the share are...

 

CREATOR OWNER (Special/Full Control)

SYSTEM (Full Control)

Administrator (Administrator@Domain) (Full Control)

Administrators (Domain\Administrators) (Full Control)

 

 

I now have an issue where students home directories are mapped correctly as drive H: but they can't access their Docs, Pics, Music, etc from the shortcuts on the Start Menu.

Clicking 'Documents' throws up an empty 'Documents Library' with only '1 Location'. Previously, there were 2 Locations, one of them being (Servername\Documents\Students\2014\Username)

 

Folder redirection appears to be working perfectly with no errors from the event log, but clearly isn't.

 

I have seen this issue posted a couple of times but haven't yet found a resolution.

 

To try and understand what I could possibly have done wrong, I decided to set up a test documents folder structure... (Servername\DemoDocs\Students\2015)

 

NTFS Permissions are as follows...

 

CREATOR OWNER (Special/Full Control)

SYSTEM (Full Control)

Administrators (Domain\Administrators) (Full Control)

 

Set up a new 2015 security group, created a new '2015' OU, GPO for folder redirection and added a new user to the AD.

Logged in with the new user account and folder redirection works perfectly with the new documents share.

 

Absolutely stumped! Any ideas what has happened here? How do I get folder redirection working for all of the current users again?

 

Many thanks,

 

Gav

[glen_j]

have you checked they are the owner of the folders? you might want to add the traverse/ list folder contents right to the (root of the shared folder only) for the students group so they can get to their folder.

[GeekyGav]

Hi Glen,

 

Thanks for this...

 

Yes, students are the owners of their home folders.

 

Students can get to their home folders if they go through 'Computer' and can save, delete, etc.

Will adding traverse/list folder contents allow redirection to take place?

 

I haven't added that to the test documents share and redirection works perfectly.

 

Not at all disputing what you are saying, just trying to understand in my own mind what has happened.

 

Thanks for your help so far.

 

Gav

[glen_j]

what permissions did you remove? if they can get to their folders via my computer then adding traverse may not fix it. have you tried resetting their home directory in active directory?

[mikes]

Just a quick post to say we have this issue too; folder redirection hasn't worked properly for us at all.

 

Their home folders are set to N:\ in AD which works fine, but the libraries (start menu links, sidebar libraries, etc) point to C:\users\username\etc despite redirection being set.

 

Not sure how to fix it myself yet, will update when I find a fix.

 

I was tempted to turn libraries off entirely as I don't see the point; does anyone use libraries on their school network? can anyone see the point in them? why would I want a setup that amalgamates two different locations into one virtual one, leaving users confused as to whether the file they saved is in one or the other ?

I can't see any GPO settings to disable it anyway so the point seems to be moot.

[GeekyGav]

Glen,

 

I removed these permissions...

 

Users (Domain\Users)

Domain Users (Domain\Domain Users)

 

I have just tried resetting a home directory on a test account.

The first logon after the reset, gave me two locations in the Documents Library.

C:\Users\Administrator\Documents

C:\Users\Public\Documents

 

Deleted both local and server copies of user's profile to see if that would iron it out and now back to one location again...

C:\Users\Public\Documents

 

Weird!!

[GeekyGav]

Mike,

 

This one has me stumped!

Folder redirection worked perfectly for us until I had removed permissions from the docs share.

Scratching my head is an understatement. Now hitting my skull against the office desk! lol.

 

Can't for the life of me, figure out why my test setup on the same server with the same permissions, GPOs, etc works... and current setup doesn't!

 

Just a quick post to say we have this issue too; folder redirection hasn't worked properly for us at all.

 

Their home folders are set to N:\ in AD which works fine, but the libraries (start menu links, sidebar libraries, etc) point to C:\users\username\etc despite redirection being set.

 

Not sure how to fix it myself yet, will update when I find a fix.

 

I was tempted to turn libraries off entirely as I don't see the point; does anyone use libraries on their school network? can anyone see the point in them? why would I want a setup that amalgamates two different locations into one virtual one, leaving users confused as to whether the file they saved is in one or the other ?

I can't see any GPO settings to disable it anyway so the point seems to be moot.

[GeekyGav]

Just had a thought chaps...

 

Our Folder Redirection policy is set to 'Create a folder for each user under the root path'.

 

Does this actually matter?

 

All users have their home drive set in User Properties and connect to drive H:

 

This has always been the case but wondered if was actually set up correctly by my predecessor.

[mikes]

Mine is set to just redirect to the users home folders.. am going to try do some testing today