Re: Issue with home folders

Altria <urbantec92@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All,

I seem to have a wierd issue with home folder for users.

In ADUC, the user's home folder is specified under
\\servername\share\user and when they login into thier workstations
they are able to connect to the drive letter designated for that home
folder path. But now, if that path gets modified, such as
\\servername\share\user0, which DOES NOT EXIST, the user upon next
login will simply get a mapped drive letter with \\servername\share
as thier home folder. In other words the user home directory becomes
the root folder share although the path specified in the home folder
attributes is a non-existent location. Why doesn't the machine
gracefully prompt an error stating path cannot be found instead of
giving users access and home folder priviledges to the root share. Is
this by design?
TIA,
Altria

BTW...win2k3 AD with xpsp3 clients

This is a very common problem unless you have a GPO setting enabled called
"always wait for network on computer startup and logon." I would suggest
setting that up in a GPO to apply to all your workstations.

That said, you should note that the home directory concept is antiquated,
and you can get more functionality (and less admin headache) if you simply
use folder redirection for My Documents (and possibly also Application Data
and Desktop - I don't do it for Start Menu). Maintaining the home directory
path settings for all users is an additional thing to deal with and if you
don't need it, why use it? The only reason I ever used it was to point My
Documents at. And now I no longer need that!

Folder Redirection Feature in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232692/EN-US

How to dynamically create security-enhanced redirected folders by using
folder redirection in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443


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