Re: One Users My Documents no longer redirected.

Good news. Thanks for the update.

By the way, there's a way to configure your wireless so that the wireless
client PCs will log into the network without a user login. It uses
certificate-based authentication so that the wireless network behaves as the
wired one does - among other things, GPOs apply normally, and WSUS will
update the client PC without a user login. This has the added benefit of
being the most secure configuration. SBS MVP Owen Williams has it all
documented here:

Configuring Secure Wireless Network Access with Microsoft® Windows® Small
Business Server 2003
http://home.comcast.net/~clearviewtc/


"whaden" <whaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your help.

Re-attaching to the wired network allowed the force GPO update to work.
All
redirected folders have been restored and work again on the wired, as well
as, wireless connections.

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

I agree that the wired network is a good thing to test early, although I
also agree that this is probably not the cause, given that the machine
can
access everything else.

I would connect it to the wired LAN, then do a gpupdate /force. Look in
the
system and application logs to see what complaints were registered when
the
group policies failed to update. Also, make sure all the appropriate
services are running. Check the Windows Firewall on the laptop to make
sure
its settings compare favorably with a normally functioning machine. And,
if
you have any 3rd party security software on that PC, you may want to
consider disabling that as a test.


"whaden" <whaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply.
I tried the to force the GP but that didn't work, so I used the
RSOP.msc.
The computer and account had the Red Xs, so I looked at the error file
and
got this:

"Friday, October 26, 2007 1:39:19 PM

Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy
components
processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other
components is not available."

This might be a "Duh" but just know that he has no problem accesses any
other part of the network including Exchange and mapped drives.

The user doesn't have a specific desktop PC on the LAN, but can login
to
any
other PC and get his My Documents just fine. It also work just fine
when
he
logs onto the Terminal Services server.

One thing I haven't tried yet (and will when I can) is to attach the
laptop
directly to the LAN (as opposed to the wireless router). Other users
on
the
wireless are not having issues, so I'm fairly certain this is a
specific
laptop issue.

Thanks again and have a good weekend. I will check back on Monday.



"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

There's got to be some reason why the group policy is not getting
applied
to
that laptop. If you're using wireless, you could try connecting to
the
wired network to see if that makes a difference. Open a cmd prompt and
run
gpupdate /force. If the policies don't apply correctly, the system
should
log an error that will point you to the cause.

You can also do Start -> Run -> Rsop.msc, which will run a wizard
showing
the policies applied to that user and computer. You should then be
able
to
find the redirection policy to see what's applying.

Does this user have a desktop PC on your LAN, and if so, do his
documents
from that PC get redirected normally? Is the user account in the same
active directory OU as the other users whose redirection works? If
not,
either move the account, or link the redirection GPO to the other OU.

"whaden" <whaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

We use a group policy to redirect user's My Documents folders to a
user
share on the network. We do not use roaming profiles and are happy
with
the
current arrangement.

I have one user whose My Documents are not appearing on a specific
client
laptop. If he logs on to any other computer, his My Documents on
the
share
are accessible.

The Target on this laptop defaults to the "administrator/my
documents"
on
the local drive. I have tried to manually type the correct path,
but
it
will
not allow me.

I have also tried to disconnect the client laptop from the domain,
delete
and recreate the client computer on SBS and re-attach the laptop to
the
domain using the /connectcomputer script.

This has not worked.

I have created a temporary local drive mapping to the user share
folder,
so
the user can access his files.

How can I get the correct access to the redirected folder or.
Is there a way to manually access the redirected folder.








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