When I attempt, via group policy, to redirect a users "My Documents" folder to their home directory on the filer using the CIFS.HOMEDIR variable I get the following error logged on the windows client:
Failed to perform redirection of folder My Documents. The full source path was <C:\Documents and Settings\colinj\My Documents>. The full destination path was <\ccis-windows\net\myhome>. At least one of the shares on which these paths lie is currently offline.
It's not clear to me why it isn't finding the users home directory and unable to mount it.
Is this a known problem? Can it be made to work? I did find one other reference to this in the mailing list archive but there was no posted resolution.
Colin Eric Johnson Microcomputer Network Administrator College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University
Hi Eric,
A particular CIFS homedirs is only visible if you're logged on as the user whose login is matching the foldername. I've got a similar issue when configuring the home directory in the user manager in our NT 4.0 domain. As I'm not logged on as the user, I can't see his homedir. However, have a look at this, maybe it might help you: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodt echnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/datacenter/gpx_redirectHomeADV.asp
Kind regards,
Michel Geldenhuys Danone Belgium SA/NV
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On Behalf Of Colin Eric Johnson Sent: mardi 26 août 2003 00:42 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Windows folder redirection and cifs.homedir
When I attempt, via group policy, to redirect a users "My Documents" folder to their home directory on the filer using the CIFS.HOMEDIR variable I
get
the following error logged on the windows client:
Failed to perform redirection of folder My Documents. The full source path was <C:\Documents and Settings\colinj\My Documents>. The full destination path was <\ccis-windows\net\myhome>. At least one of the shares on which these paths lie is currently offline.
It's not clear to me why it isn't finding the users home directory and unable to mount it.
Is this a known problem? Can it be made to work? I did find one other reference to this in the mailing list archive but there was no posted resolution.
Colin Eric Johnson Microcomputer Network Administrator College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University
This is the behavior that I am seeing. I had considered have My Documents redirected based on group and/or OU but that runs into a different problem.
Because I am using the CIFS.HOMEDIR option along with redirection that enables users to create a subdirectory for their home directory with the following:
/vol/homedirs/systems/%u%/.WIN_HOME /vol/homedirs/systems/%u%/WIN_HOME /vol/homedirs/systems
I can't be sure where a users home directory is likely to be so I was hoping that I could use the same functionality to redirect My Documents to the users home directory. I'm not sure if this is doable at all.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Michel Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:05 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Windows folder redirection and cifs.homedir
Hi Eric,
A particular CIFS homedirs is only visible if you're logged on as the user whose login is matching the foldername. I've got a similar issue when configuring the home directory in the user manager in our NT 4.0 domain. As I'm not logged on as the user, I can't see his homedir. However, have a look at this, maybe it might help you: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodt echnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/datacenter/gpx_redirectHomeADV.asp
Kind regards,
Michel Geldenhuys Danone Belgium SA/NV
Not to belabor the point but here's what is confusing me, the eventlog on the client computer reports the following:
------------------------------------- Event Type: Error Event Source: Folder Redirection Event Category: None Event ID: 106 Date: 8/26/2003 Time: 11:32:25 AM User: CCIS-WINDOWS\colinj Computer: GALLIUM Description: Failed to perform redirection of folder My Documents. The full source path was <C:\Documents and Settings\colinj\My Documents>. The full destination path was <\ccis-windows\net\myhome>. At least one of the shares on which these paths lie is currently offline. ------------------------------------
Now it looks to me like the redirection is happening as the user. So the question is now, why is the share from the network appliance not showing up?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Michel Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:05 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Windows folder redirection and cifs.homedir
Hi Eric,
A particular CIFS homedirs is only visible if you're logged on as the user whose login is matching the foldername. I've got a similar issue when configuring the home directory in the user manager in our NT 4.0 domain. As I'm not logged on as the user, I can't see his homedir. However, have a look at this, maybe it might help you: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodt echnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/datacenter/gpx_redirectHomeADV.asp
Kind regards,
Michel Geldenhuys Danone Belgium SA/NV
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