Redirecting Users My Documents

[amartin]

Hi,

 

Using Group Policy I have set folder redirection for My Documents and then for Pictures, Music and Videos. Thing is the My Documents is not redirecting to the users home folder but my pictures, music and videos works fine.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[Joanne]

Triple check the UNC paths.

 

Mine are set to be: \\SERVERNAME\Staff Home\%USERNAME%\My Documents

 

This works on Windows 10. Think if you just put 'Documents' perhaps it gets confused.

[amartin]

I have just set it to redirect to users home directory.

 

So it just uses %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%

[dry]

Typo in the file path?

 

Double-check the permissions on the share and the folder. You can use the 'effective access' tab on the 'advanced' menu on the 'security' tab on the folder to check a specific user has access to the folder on a specific computer.

 

Have you enabled accessed based enumeration on the share?

[amartin]

I aint touched access based enumeration yet.

 

What I have noticed in the users home area it creates my pictures, my videos and my music but no documents folder?

 

thanks

[Joanne]

I have just set it to redirect to users home directory.

 

So it just uses %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%

 

I don't use the % tags very often... do you not need the slashes still? Or even set it to create a folder called Documents?

 

eg/ \\%homeshare%\%homepath%\Documents

[amartin]

I just selected redirect to the users home directory in the drop down menu on group policy. I presume it automatically creates a documents folder within the folder with there username?

[Joanne]

Should do!

[amartin]

Hmm I am lost to why it aint working then.

[Joanne]

or that might redirect the documents shortcut to go to the home directory.

 

Can you try it with full UNC like I first posted?

[DMcCoy]

Is this updating a redirection? Does the user profile contain a redirection already? Later versions of Windows sometimes require access to both the old location and the new location to update the registry paths. The event log should record what it thinks it is setting the redirection to.

 

Also %HOMESHARE% is usually \\server\share\userfolder while %HOMEPATH% is usually \

 

You can user %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%Documents or %HOMESHARE%\Documents to achieve the same effect, %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% can fail in a less useful manner than %HOMESHARE%\Documents if the user doesn't have a home folder set in AD

Edited May 2, 2017 by DMcCoy