RE: Folder Redirection not working

Hi Allen,

Yes, you're right, that was causing an error.

However, I've now changed the redirection to point to each group's shared
folder. For example, the 'Users' group I have set as
'\\servername\userdocs\%username%'

I have looked at the GPMC RSoP and it now sends back an error stating:

'Failed to perform redirection of folder My Documents.
The new directories for the redirected folder could not be created.
The folder is configured to be redirected to
<\\pandora\guestdocs$\%username%>, the final expanded path was
<\\pandora\guestdocs$\user4>.
The following error occurred:
This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object.'

What does this mean? I have set it up to make sure the correct user group
has full security privelages on their shared folder.

Pete

"Allen Firouz" wrote:

> Pete,
>
> I think I see where the problem is (if I have read your setup correctly)!
> You are pointing the My Documents to the users' 'H' drive. You can't do
> that. Redirection requires mapping to a UNC path and cannot map to a drive!
> I am sure that if you look at the Event Logs, you will notice the failure of
> the GPO (USERENV) at the local level. To test, you can run through the RSoP
> in GPMC (Group Policy Management Console).By running Group Policy Results
> Wizard and assigning a PC and a User, you can see exactly what is being
> applied.
>
> Download GPMC here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a6d4c24-8cbd-4b35-9272-dd3cbfc81887&displaylang=en
> Post back if I misread your environmental situation.
>
> -Allen Firouz
>
> "Pete Appleyard" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running server 2003 with group policies set up on 4 different OU's.
> > These are 'Admin', 'Staff', 'Users' and 'Guests'.
> >
> > I have set a policy above the 4 OU's that sets up the folder redirection for
> > each of the four groups. I redirect documents, desktops and startmenus for
> > each.
> >
> > So far, I have everyone's desktops and startmenus working correctly. I am
> > having problems though, with the documents.
> >
> > What I have done is in the users properties (from active directory), I have
> > set the profile path to \\servername\adminprofiles\%username% and the
> > documents to connect the 'h' drive to \\servername\admindocs\%username%
> >
> > For all the users, when they log on, they have a h drive which is correctly
> > linked to their documents with correct permissions.
> >
> > Inside the group policy for folder redirection, the my documents is
> > redirected to 'h:' for everyone (as everyone has the h drive mapped for their
> > documents)
> >
> > The 'Admin' group works fine and can access their documents from the 'my
> > documents' link - it correctly shows the contents of their h drives as it
> > should.
> >
> > However, the other three groups do not work. When you click on the 'my
> > documents' link, it simply links to the my documents on the local profile (as
> > in c:\documents and settings\user.local\my documents)
> >
> > Why would this be happening? Is there any way that I can make sure that the
> > 'my documents' link always links to the h drive?
> >
> > Another question I have is: Is there a way to use folder redirection for
> > favorites? I would like to use this because at the moment (as default)
> > favorites are stored in the users profile. However, if I ever need to reset
> > the user's profile, they will loose all their favorites.
> >
> > If there was a seperate share on the server which had different folders for
> > each users favorites in, it would stop the problem of favorites being deleted!
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance for any help.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Pete Appleyard
.

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