Re: Folder Redirect to NAS Intel SS4000-E
- From: "Jeremy Dillinger" <jerdill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:43:04 -0400
I had another thought about this if you are able to help.
Do you know if there is a way to write a vbs script to remap the documents
folder. That way I can run the vbs script after the drive map is done, this
way the authentication will have already happend.
Thanks
"Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It may be too late, but a quick look makes me think you picked the wrong
device to purchase if that's one of your goals. You may have wanted to
consider something like a windows storage device vs. this.
Anyway, if you want to map a drive and then let that drive be mapped out,
you can't. That would be a gateway and it's not something that works.
You can however, if the device will support it, use iscsi to present that
device as a storage unit to the OS and let it pass through a server for
storage. In essence, the device becomes a jbod for the server. I don't
think this device is sophisticated enough for that, nor is it designed to
do that. Not a lot of flexibility that I can see.
Fortunately, it maxes out at 64 users anyway, so...
That GPO should try to take effect at run time. Meaning that if that
drive is inaccessible when the user session is initiated (you log on) then
it won't work. You can enable logging, but that's pretty much what you'll
see. My Documents is such a basic part of the profile that it needs to be
there before there's a profile. The OS will, from what I've seen, go
ahead and use local or fail if it cannot get to what you designate
otherwise.
Al
"Jeremy Dillinger" <jerdill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a problem with Folder redirects that is a little wierd, and I was
hoping for any input if possible.
We are trying to redirect all the user documents folder to a network
access storage (Intel SS4000-E) unit. The problem is that the unit does
not authenticate with the domain and it has its own user access list. The
public folder even requires a password in order to log onto it.
Currently all of the user documents are directed to the active directory
server under a home folder. The goal is to move all of these home folders
to the NAS storage, in order to free up the space on the active directory
server, and releive the load somewhat.
We want to keep from having to add every user in the domain, to the user
list on the NAS. We would like to have one user with full access to a
home folder on the NAS, and have all the clients connect with that same
user. (We are not worried about the security of users accessing other
users)
I have tried creating a batch file to map the home share on the NAS to a
drive letter, using that generic user name on the NAS. I was hoping this
would open and save the connection to the share so users will not need to
type in a password to connect to the NAS. This part works.
When I set the GPO to redirect the docs to the NAS though it doesn't take
effect. This works when going through the windows server however. For
some reason the GPO just won't direct to the network share. I am
wondering if the client computer can't connect to the NAS it may error
out and not take effect. If that is the case, I am wondering if the GPO
redirect tries to take effect before the logon batch script maps the
drive and authenticats. Does anybody know what happens first?
Also another option I am thinking about is the ability to map the NAS to
a folder on the windows server and share out that folder from there, so
the server will have the connection, and the users will be connecting to
the server but still storing data on the NAS. I know windows can do this
with physical drives through disk management (map to folder, under change
drive letter) and was courious if there are any third party programs
available to do this with network shares.
Please advise if you have any input. If you have another option I haven't
even mentioned please share that as well. Thanks!
Jeremy Dillinger
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