Re: My Documents Redirection question

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:19:58 -0800

Chris,

My goal is to redirect My Documents using a variable. I
had a feeling I needed to use a UNC path so I'm going to
have to create a new variable to point to the users home
directory, excluding the leading \\'s. I just wanted to
check in here to make sure I wasnt losing my mind.

Thanks.

Jeff
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Jeff ,
>Sorry you have to use valid UNC \\server\share then you
add ONE variable
>like \\server\share\%username%
>
>What is your goal here?
>
>--
>Regards
>Christoffer Andersson
>
>No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
>
>"Jeff" <jswift@gcm.com> skrev i meddelandet
>news:8ee501c4052d$8ca6def0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> Chriss,
>>
>> Even if I use one variable %HOMESHARE% with out the two
>> leading \\'s, it spits out the message stating the
target
>> is not a UNC path. I may need to create a new variable
>> w/o the leading \\'s. Thoughts?
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hi Jeff, You can't use more than one variable with in
>> the redirection path
>> >for Folder Redirection. My Office Apps uses the
>> redirected location by
>> >default. If you right click at the My Documents at the
>> desktop for a users
>> >effected by the particular policy. dose it point to
the
>> home directory?
>> >
>> >--
>> >Regards
>> >Christoffer Andersson
>> >
>> >No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
>> >
>> >"Jeff" <jswift@gcm.com> skrev i meddelandet
>> >news:0bef01c40527$a89de500$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> I have a question regarding folder redirection in
Win
>> >> 2K. We are redirecting My Documents to the users
home
>> >> drive but we noticed it wasnt working. Our path to
>> >> redirect was \\%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% (we need to use
>> the
>> >> variables b/c we have multiple locations). I found
the
>> >> \\ before the %HOMESHARE% are causing the problem
>> since %
>> >> HOMESHARE% contains two backslashes. I tried
setting
>> the
>> >> Group Policy to use %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH% but it
spits
>> up
>> >> an error stating the patch must be a UNC or it may
not
>> >> work correctly if the folder cant be found (this is
the
>> >> case after trying it). I then set the policy
>> >> using "Redirect to the users home folder" but I
found
>> the
>> >> office apps are not going to the redirected My
>> Documents
>> >> folder, rather going to the local one. I looked at
the
>> >> best practices sections but they dont offer much for
>> >> redirecting with multiple locations.
>> >>
>> >> Can someone please direct me (no pun intended) in
the
>> >> right direction? Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Jeff
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>

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