GPP drive map not working

[Gaz]

I'm trying to map a drive for a lecturer using GPP it works fine for students using item level targetting but when I try to apply a policy to the lecturer on the computer in event view it says.

"The User "L:' preference item in "Policy long hex number" Group policy object did not apply because it failed with error code 0x80070035 the network path was not found this error was suppressed.

 

A google reveals any number of causes most of which I have explored such as driver issues and using the server hostname in the UNC path. I have also tried update and create options in GPP. Both XP SP3 with client side extensions and Win7 are effected.

[Firefox]

I'm assuming you've checked the obvious? i.e permissions to the drive, and that the lecturers don't already have an existing L:\

 

From one of the lecturers machines, can you manually navigate to the path?

[Gaz]

Yeah the permissions should be fine. No existing L:\ drive and I can navigate to the folder manually.

[Michael]

Try specifying the FQDN, such as:

 

\\servername.domain.pri\share

 

Instead of

 

\\servername\share

[Gaz]

Try specifying the FQDN, such as:

 

\\servername.domain.pri\share

 

Instead of

 

\\servername\share

 

Yeah tried that, thats what I meant by the full host name.

[Michael]

It could well be a DNS issue. Try restarting the DNS server service manually on each server.

[Gaz]

I Did think DNS but all the forward and reverse records look OK. I will try restarting the service. Just now I am trying to target via a group instead of a user to see if that works any better.

[Gaz]

This is an odd one, I think I'll try rebooting the server over dinner time.

[cscc]

Does the scripted method work as opposed to GPP?

 

net use L: "\\server\share" /persistent:no

 

Could create a new group policy and simply add the one user to that as a workaround.

Edited January 20, 2015 by cscc

[Gaz]

Does the scripted method work as opposed to GPP?

 

net use L: "\\server\share" /persistent:no

 

Could create a new group policy and simply add the one user to that as a workaround.

 

It may do but I would prefer to get GPP working because if I needed to do some more maps later on they may not work. I'll script it as a last resort.

[cscc]

In your GPP setting for that map do you happen to have a trailing slash at the end of the desired network path? From reading around this can break the GPP mapping.

[Gaz]

In your GPP setting for that map do you happen to have a trailing slash at the end of the desired network path? From reading around this can break the GPP mapping.

 

That worked thank you. It shouldnt have because a folder should need the last \ to indicate the directory but its working so I'll just accept it.