User Home Folder Renamed to documents - fixed in SP1 ??

[bewlay51]

Hello all,

 

Has the problem whereby the users home folders are renamed to "My Documents" or "Documents" when using Server 2008 R2 and Vista / Win 7 clients been fixed in SP1.

 

I have a work around, but it would be nice if it has been fixed. Does anybody know??

 

Many thanks,

 

John

[oxide54]

is there a file called desktop.ini in the folder?

 

or use the search function

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008/53755-home-folders-renames-my-documents.html

Edited April 10, 2011 by oxide54

[FN-GM]

I doubt it has to be honest its been arround since Vista

[imiddleton25]

yes we had this problem and took us a long time to get to the bottom of it

 

we use folder redirection in an appsense configuration and we found that the path to the share had to have a trailing \ on the end to stop this happening very anoying.

[eddyc]

We found the eaisiest thing to do was have the folder under a folder, i.e. student 12345 would connect to a share of 12345$ which is a folder within 12345. (Not very clear I know!)

[qcomer]

We redirect all of our users to documents like the following (we have 2 shares total on the file server).

 

\\fileserver\public\staff directories\site\username\documents

\\fileserver\student directories\site\username\documents

[FN-GM]

We redirect all of our users to documents like the following (we have 2 shares total on the file server).

 

\\fileserver\public\staff directories\site\username\documents

\\fileserver\student directories\site\username\documents

 

How does that handle when you have Windows XP? Do you see a folder called documnets in the home drive?

[qcomer]

How does that handle when you have Windows XP? Do you see a folder called documnets in the home drive?

 

 

If they browse to \\fileserver\public\staff directories\sitename\username they will see the documents folder. We do not map a home drive. All we do is redirect their documents and map a P:\ drive for \\fileserver\public\sitename which is their department/site folder.