Re: W2008: new location for folder redirection does not work

I can see that your answer forces me to go a little deeper... maybe i should
have done that in the first run but here goes the historie:

Once upon a time we used to emulate Windows 2003 as a DC together with a few
other servers. At that time the DC-servar was called, lets say, server-01
Along with the economic crisis alot more customers wanted us to create them
a new website and the company expanded a little. As always the system
administration doesnt get much value... but finally i knocked my fist in the
table and spittingly asked for more servers. I got permission to go
shopping-nutch at dell.com and i bought two new servers.

One of the new servers was to take over the DC-role from the emulated W2003.
So i installed W2008 and wanted to overtake the AD by joining to the
forrest. I never got that up working - a DNS-error comlpicated the process
and i ended up starting from the beginning building a new DC. I thought that
keeping the old emulated DC's name might be a good idea - so that the clients
and the other servers didnt go gaga. I had a hard job emigrating the Document
and Settings\<user>-folder on all the clients - the clients had to join a new
server though the domain name was the same as before. But i finally tweaked
it and all the users kept their program settings locally.

So now i would really like to change the new DCs name. It still has the old
name from th eemulated one and it just dosnt make sense keeping that name -
mostly because it reflects that the server is a emulated one (which it isnt
anymore).
So the name should be changed!

And to answer your questions:

Offline folders? isnt that just the same as Folder Redirection? The only GPO
i have applied is Folder Direction > Documents. Setting the properties to
Basic - Redirect everyone's folder.... bla bla bla, and Create a folder for
each user under the root path, and Root path: \\[new or old server
path]\mydocuments$
In the Settings-tab i have enabled the two first checkboxes, the third is
not checked. Under Policy Removal i have marked the first option. And thats
about it... i have no more settings related to Folder Redirection/Synch

As for your next question about permission: since the path is intact -
nothing has changed but the server-name the permissions are also the same
meaning that the clients still keeps their permissions... so nothing changed.
The folder the clients uses, is still the same and i havent moved or copied
anything (just a backup to make sure)...

I'll go report the .log-file in a few minutes.
I just finally need to say that it is not a specific computer that wont use
the Folder Redirection - its all of the clients in the forest. I dont get any
error in the eventvwr.msc related to Folder Redirection - but when i log out
the sync starts and stops telling that the path could not be found (or
somthing - i cant remember the specific error - but i'll write it down next
time)...

Brb with the log..

and thanks

// peter

"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Kian,

Do you use offline folder settings also, then disable that for testing? Any
errors in the event viewer?

On the new server share permissions are Full control and the NTFS permissions
at least modify for the user folders?

Also see this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951049


We should try to collect Userenv.log on the XP machine:

1. Start Registry Editor.

2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

3. Right-click and new add DWORD(32-bit) with the Value of "UserEnvDebugLevel"


4. Type in 100002(Hexadecimal) or 65538(Decimal) in the Value data box, and
then click OK.

5. Reboot the problematic computer to make the change take into effect.

The Userenv.log is located in the following folder:
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Debug\UserMode\



Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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hi there... to make a long story short i was forced to use the old
name from a demoted DC on a new w2008 installation. Now i am about to
change that name but i realized it isnt that easy as i thought.

I changed the GPO for Redirecting Folders to the new server-name,
since the share is located on the DC:

Before: \\server01\share$

New: \\srv01\share$

I rebooted the DC (to make the name-change take effect), and i tried
to login from a client (XP). The problem is that the
synchronization/folder redirection on the clients still thinks that
the old servername (\\server01\share$) is the right place... which it
isnt and therefore the synch fails.

I have ran gpupdate /force and gpresults /z showing that the current
GPO (that enables and activate the new path for Redirecting Folder)
has been activated on the XP-client.

I have looked in the regedit HKU\<user id>\ and by searching i get
results on the old servername... when trying to edit and put in the
new server-name, logging out (of XP) and logging in, running regedit,
my input has been overwritten and put back to 'normal' with old
server-settings.

I have red sone posts on other forums related to this and they finally
ends up deleting the user from AD, and the profile-dir at Documents
and Settings on client, (backing up the document-folder on the server)
and create the user again (in the AD) and then make it work that way.

My question is therefore: does it really takes a deletion of a user,
wiping
all settings except whats backed up, to change a Folder Redirection in
the
GPO?
Its a bit frustrating...



.

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