Re: Home folder not mapping in XP

From: Eric Renken (ericrenken_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/13/04


Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:00:28 -0400

Do you have a login script or just using AD to assign the home directory?
What I would do is try the cmd "NET USE H: /HOME" from their computer and
see if it maps then. I have this in a login script on my network and it
works every time.

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Eric Renken
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"pd" <pd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:35E0A059-BF89-4A0C-9C5E-CBB6DB6438CE@microsoft.com...
> Hello there. I just setup 2 people at my company with 2 new laptops. They
> were using old laptops up until a week ago. For some reason their home
> folders don't mapp sometimes. This is a mixed WIn 2k, Win 2003 server 
> Active
> directory environment. The laptops they were using before were win 2k
> machines. The login script maps all other drives except the home folder.
> Again, this only happens about 1/2 of the time. Nothing has change in 
> ACtive
> Directory or with permissions set on those folders. The only common
> denominator is that these 2 people received new WIn xp machines. I have
> scoured Microsoft Technet and I am not really usre if the answer is there.
> Any suggestions are appreciated. 


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