RE: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:08:46 -0700

I have the same issue, it is intermittent as well, so the issue only comes up every now and then, but it is still an oddity.  From time to time our users will get the top level share \\servername\home\  instead of \\servername\home\%username%  I do not know why this happens either, I have researched it as well, and have not come up with any solutions that make sense.  The logging off and on thing works intermittently as well.  My users are connecting from the same computer, using DHCP and AD Integrated Zones for DNS.  Our profile tab has \\servername\home\%username% as the home directory path but that seems to be superceded for some reason.  I wonder if going back to shared directories instead of top level shares is the answer, although it does not explain why this happens.
 
Nate

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Hargraves
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

For some odd reason Google didn't show me your original message (it hides 'quoted' material for some messsages).  I didn't see that portion of your message (that it was intermittent) and was trying to think of what all things would cause this.

There are a few questions that I have:

1) Are they always connecting from the same computer.

2) Are you using DHCP or static mapping?

3) AD Integrated DNS?

I'll look around and see what I run into.  I haven't run into this personally (intermittent mapping of home drives) and just to be honest, I use a \\servername\driveletter$\directory mapping for my home drive (mostly so that I can always reach a particular drive location when on a network without having to share it out) and even I don't see it with this somewhat non-standard homedrive location type.



On 7/16/06, Arnold Arce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Taking everything you said, why would this problem be intermittent and not every single time the user logs in?

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt Hargraves
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:03 PM

Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

 

Well, when you're mapping to \\server\share\directory, if the user has permission issues at the directory level (their actual home share location), I believe that it will simply map to the share and not go into the directory.

Make sure that you have granted all users "Full Control" at the share level.  You don't need to grant them anything more than "Read" at the NTFS level (since I believe the System account creates their home directory), but to have full control (which is required for the home drive location), you have to be *able* to have full control and you can only have full control on a share if *both* the Share-level permissions and the directory level permissions state that.

Example:

The "\\server01\users" share is located on the E drive in the directory "users".  You can have the perms on that directory to be "Administrators: Full, System: Full, Everyone: Read", the System will create the user directories (E:\users\joebloe\) and grant the required permissions for that directory (full control for joebloe).  However, if the share perms state "Change" or "Read Only", then the user can only have that level *or lower* of effective permissions on the files.  So even if joebloe has "Full Control" on his directory, if the share says "Everyone: Change", then his effective permissions on everything in that share (including his directory) won't ever be more than "Change".  You could actually have "E:\users" shared out as "\\server01\users" and "\\server01\home" and if you have everyone as "Change" on the users share and "Full Control" on the home share, even though it's the exact same location on the system and the NTFS permissions haven't changed, the people who are mapped to "\\server01\home" will work, while the people who are mapped to "\\server01\users" won't work.  Change everyone's mapping to "\\server01\home" (or change "\\server01\users" to have Everyone: Full) and they will all work.

Some of this is speculation and while I seem to remember running into this in someone's network before, that was something like 6 years ago and haven't run into it since.  I could be mistaken.

On 7/16/06, Arnold Arce < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Has any headway been made with this problem?   I can't find any solutions out there. 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Conrad, Daniel C Mr. Nortel PEC Solutions
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:17 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

 

It's all AD on 2k3 with XP Pro clients, connecting to a real share (both by IP and NetBIOS to ensure name resolution isn't an issue.  No DFS.

 

On behalf of Jerry

 

 

Dan

Nortel PEC Solutions

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:57 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

 

%USERNAME% won't help, as it is translated "on the fly" to the user's name the moment you use it, so it ends up joe.user anyway.

Are your users having the problem using W2K or later, I assume?  (if not, there's your answer)  And you ARE using a "real" share, not a DFS root share, right?

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Arnold Arce
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

 

I have experienced this same problem.  Usually logging off and logging on fixes it.  I need to find a better answer.  I'll try the %USERNAME% variable like someone else suggested.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Condra, Jerry W Mr HP
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:42 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Home directories issue

 

Hoping someone has seen this problem before.

Users are mapping home folders using AD profile tab which maps X: to \\servername\home\joe.user .   Occasionally, upon logon, users will map to \\servername\home and not all the way to their own home directory. I've seen several blogs and the same problem posted elsewhere but no cause or solution. 

 

Thanks

Jerry

 


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