Re: Folder Redirect to NAS Intel SS4000-E
- From: "Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:29:57 -0400
In all honesty, I've never had occasion to re-direct my documents without
GPO. I can't for the life of me think that GPO is doing anything magical
that you can't also do via script. I haven't seen any scripts for that, I
can't think why some thing couldn't be written to do it.
I do think it's a long way around to make this thing work. I think there's
danger there in the sense that it's more complex than you might want over
time.
Have you considered just telling the users to store their data on a home
drive and be done with it? Let the users do the work vs. you doing the work
on the back end?
If you must go down that path, try looking in the registry to see where
those settings are made for the redirection. Take a snapshot of one registry
before and after the GPO change has affected it and see what's different. I
think you'll find the information there.
Al
"Jeremy Dillinger" <jerdill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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