Re: Folder Redirection puzzle

From: GT (DSS4u_at_+++nospam+++HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:26:30 -0500

Take alook in the event log of the computer that the new user is logging in
to. I'm willing to bet the answer will be there (or at least more clues).

-GT
"Mark Stinson" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:%236ZOFN66EHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Forgot to add -- I did try setting local policies on the XP boxes to force
> synchronous policy processing a la Win2K. No joy.
>
> Mark
>
> "Mark Stinson" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:OTJ5dJ66EHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I administer a Windows 2000 active directory domain and have been having
>> an ongoing headache with a folder redirection policy. When I initially
>> created the domain a couple of years ago, we were a pure Win2K
>> environment with a couple of hundred users. I set up a policy to redirect
>> the users' My Documents folder to a server so that they would be backed
>> up regularly. Aside from this, user profiles are local.
>>
>> Our environment has changed somewhat with the addition of a couple of
>> hundred more Win2K desktops, about 150 WinXP desktops and a few hundred
>> more users, but the servers are still Win2000.
>>
>> The redirect policy worked well initially, but I began running into
>> problems with the redirected folders. When a new user logs on from a
>> Win2K box, the user's folder is created, but the user account has no
>> permissions and cannot access their folder until I manually set the
>> permissions. Aside from being an annoyance, it isn't that big of a deal
>> as all other permissions are working as they should. However, when a new
>> user logs on from a WinXP box, the redirect policy isn't even being
>> applied, the folder is not created and everything stays local. Even if I
>> manually create the user's folder, the redirect is not being applied. If
>> the user initially logs in from a Win2K box and I set the permissions on
>> their folder, the redirect seems to work OK if they later log on from a
>> WinXP box.
>>
>> Thanks for any help, suggestions, ideas, or Valium. ;-)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>

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