folder redirection problem

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From: hal (halsandick_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:24:18 GMT

I'm very new to GPOs, so please bear with me.

First, I searched this newsgroup to see If I could find a similar problem
but couldn't.

Background:

I have enabled folder redirection for the "My Documents" folder for users.
We have a lab with a set of 30 XP machines (latest updates applied) used by
many different users (school). The server is a win 2000 server. I have
written the GPO's from a an XP machine using adminpak active directory
tools. The accounts are re-directed to "\\server\data files\userdirs" (each
user has an directory on this path).

In addition, the directories for each user have the security permissions set
so that the system, the particular user, and the administrator (me) can
access the folders and contents.

Problem:

The folders redirect but on some machines when logging off from the current
user account, say account "1", the machine tries and synchronize other user
accounts, e.g., accounts "2" &"3", that have used the machine. These
synchronizations usually fail because the current account, account "1"
doesn't have the proper permissions to do the synchronization.

I have tried:

1) changing all the possible GPO settings I have seen mentioned in the
newsgroup and then some (and there must at least 8 in different places).

2) I tried creating a separate OU for the computers with a GPO set not to
allow automatic caching. I rebooted the machines to no avail.

Additional observation:

When a user is logged on, if I right click on the "My Documents" folder
being re-directed and look at the synchronization settings, the
synchronization is set to synchronize the "\\server\data files" path on
logging offing. If I turn this by hand for each account that logged on to
the machine the problem goes away.

What I'd like:

Besides eliminating this behavior, I'd like not to have any of the folder
info cached on the machines.

Any suggestions? Is there a step by step paper on how to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Hal

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