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Is it by using Configure My Documents Redirection in Server Management.
Or by Mapping a drive to the users Home Direcory.
Edit: Windows 2003
and spelling
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... that's the way the local IT guy (contracted services) insists that it be set up at these locations, of course! It isn't me... I just have to deal with it! ;)
Personally, I think it's a PITA. If their server goes down, our people can't work. But, to each his own, I guess. :D
by churdoo Accepted solution
Well you asked about the User Home Directory. This is completely unrelated to MyDocs redirection. You give a user access to his/her home directory by mapping a drive to it.
MyDocs redirection is done so that users' locally generated documents are directed to the server and the material can be subject to server backup and also to facilitate a user moving between workstations without necessarily using roaming profiles, kindof like a roaming profiles lite. Oftentimes MyDocs is redirected to the users' home directories, but it doesn't have to be.
Redirecting MyDocs to the users' home directories may seem redundant if there's also a mapped drive, but putting it there gives the user a second way to get to their myDocs, through My Computer and the mapped drive, which could be handy in certain situations.
With myDocs directed to a server, admin should also force offline files via GP so that if a server or network does fail, the users can still have access to their myDocs material via offline files until service is restored.
by thumbsup2 Accepted solution
Thanks Churdoo. You explained it much better than I could have.
In addition... when you click Save, Save As, or Open from within any program, the default dialog box displays "My Documents". If that's redirected, users will save and open files from the server without the need to change the danged drop down box each time they see the dialog. .... it's all transparent. :D
by matthew.savige Accepted solution
With redirection windows will usualy set up file syncing which handles the issue of accessing the files when the server is offline as a copy is sored localy as well.
As far as the orrigional question I forget what you were asking so here's a response anyways.
I'd set the home directory up on the users profile tab home folder.
by 1bn0 Accepted solution
Make the users home directory name the same as their username and putit in the login script.
WHEN! Windows drops the drive mapping, re-execute the login script to re-establish the connection.
If you use the profile tab, the user has to log off and on again to get the mapping back.
by rob miners Accepted solution
of My Documents as a replacement for the users Home directory for years. When you set the Home folder path and allocate a drive letter that is the drive that the users My Documents get redirected to. It is automatically connected to the users profile. I thought that that was the way Windows 2003 was supposed to work. Have the users files in a central location for ease of Backup and to make use of the new technology.
When we were using NT4 we mapped drives for the users Home directories. I haven't mapped a drive for a Home directory unless I had to connect Win98 to a Windows 2003 server. Mind you I followed the guidelines set out by the Education Department that I was employed with. We tried very hard to avoid saving anything to a workstation as that way they could be re-imaged with the least amount of effort.
by thumbsup2 Accepted solution
If you've allocated a drive letter, you've 'mapped' a drive, even if it's done through login script. So, I think we're talking about the same thing here... just describing it differently.
Maybe I didn't understand your original question though. Were you asking if mapping was done at the local level? If so, no. It's done at the time of logging in to the domain.
by rob miners Accepted solution
I cut my teeth on NT4 File Server and completely missed Windows 2000 File Server. I was confronted with a new build and that was Windows 2003 which was a big step from NT4. From what little documentation that was provided I had to try and work it out for myself. I can see now how I have became confused.
I had no control over the Server build as that was all organised and automated by the department. By no means a standard build.
I was instructed to set the Home directory - shared as userid$ and nowhere is the mention to use /home when creating the logon script for Win98. The way that the Server build worked for XP was to redirect My Documents to H: and that became the Home directory. There was a logon.vbe than ran with logon.ini that could be modified and the drive mappings were automatic. I used the same drive mappings that were in the logon.ini in my batch file for use with Win98.
echo net use G: \\server\Set >%timer%
echo net use H: \\server\%username%$ >>%timer%
echo net use I: \\server\Menu$ >>%timer%
echo net use J: \\server\Favor$ >>%timer%
echo net use L: \\server\Log$ >>%timer%
by cg it Accepted solution
to set a home directory for users. The simple way is in the users profile in Active Directory users and computers. you can map that home directory in AD Users and Computer profile using a path \\server share\user folder.
Logon scrips work well for mapped drives. but what are you trying to achieve? What is the end result? All users save documents to a server share? Or just having a mapped drive for them to use.
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home folders usually are used when there is an application that will automatically look to save to a home folder. Since programmers tend to use it for their spiffy niffty useful program, that's about the only time you need to use home folders.
Office Suite saves to my documents so if that's all your users use, don't need home folders. My Documents redirect does the same thing.
oh, and on W2003 Server [mentioned this in email] home folders have the everyone group with full control [parent inheritence]. have to look very carefully are permissions when using home folders [W2K Server doesn't do this only admin and owner have full control].
by rob miners Accepted solution
is extreemly handy when all users are using products that will save to the My Documents folder and that was the main strategy. I was in a situation that if I had to reimage a workstation I had to do it with the least resistance. Students and Staff were pre-warned that if they did save anything to a workstation that they would lose it. They soon got the message.
Thanks for the tip with the W2K Server I will note that.
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