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by memin

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We have migrated users from Novell servers to Windows based servers. Now i'm having problems with a handful of users connecting to their home folder. Their home folder is set to \\servername\home\%username% but when they log off and log back in their home folder defaults to \\servername\home.

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by rob miners

On the server open server management. Select Users, Select Configure My Documents Redirection. Tick Redirect all My Documents to the default shared folder for users on the Small Business Server.

So long as your profile has a home folder drive letter and folder attached you do not need to map a drive for home directories.

by memin

Active Directory creates the home folder automatically. It will work fine and you can always remap if it disconnects but it's driving the users and us crazy. It still will not reconnect at log on, it defaults to \\Servername\home.

by simon.laird

I'm starting to see this appearing more and more. It has only started in a the last few months.... say since SP2 was rolled out.
I've been working around it by allowing AD to re-grant the user access to their home folder. After a log off/on the drive comes back as it should.

so, I've been doing this;

1. go to the Profile tab in the user AD entry
2. Edit their Home Folder path and then immediately change it back to the correct entry. (This allows you to re-Apply the setting).
3. You should get the 'Folder already exists, do you want to give this person access to the folder blah, blah' message. Hit yes to allow AD to re-apply the permissions.
4. User logs off and back on. Drive mapping returns.

We use My Docs redirection an syncronisation with the users AD home folder which still works. Also, the user can still access the home folder with the full UNC path. It's just the drive that isn't being mapped properly at log on. Our user names do not map directly to a folder of the same name for legacy reasons.

If I can't find a long term solution it might be worth doing the mappings via group policy rather than AD.. or sticking it in the logon script.

by memin

I've deleted the folder from the file server, removed the home folder path from AD, and readded the path \\server\home\%username% and I'm still having problems. I can remap the drive without any problems. On some users just logging off and back on will cause them to lose their connection. I've showed the users how to remap it themselves and I've even created a batch file (and put it on their desktop) that will remap it for them but they just don't want to do it. If you come up with a solution please let me know I would appreciate it very much. Thanks

by memin

One other thing, the users have more than one drive mapping. The users have 3 drive mappings to the same file server but lose connection only to their home folder.

by mjworsdale

I have had the same problems every year when i bulk create the new year 7 accounts. I have allways gone into each account and first picked a random drive say Z then apply then pick the correct drive and apply that. It sorts out the lost drive probs. i am running server 2003 with some 1500 accounts.

by kocherl

Did you ever find a fix for the problem of the Home Folder drive mapping getting lost when users log in?

by bentgellerich

This has been happening to us for a while. It may have something to do with Symantec Endpoint protection, but I have been unablet to pinpoint the problem. If anyone has a solution for this problem, please post it.

Thanks

by simon.laird

Just poking through my old mail and found this. We did solve problem in the end but only by introducing another issue. This happens with Windows XP clients due to the networking not being 'ready' when the client logs in. We worked around it by applying the 'Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon' group policy. We have not had a single case of this happening since we applied the policy however it cn slow the login process down.

The policy is in Computer Configuration/Admin Templates/System Logon/

by Former member

Ethereal.
Do a capture until the connection dies, and then see what the last few packets were.
Or use Wireshark:
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
You might be losing the connection due to a lot of data across the network. Just a thought..

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

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