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scevans

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05/05/2008 7:07 PM
We set the homeDir attribute on our users accounts. The standard path is \\server\share\%username%. Occasionally a user will have his home drive mapped to \\server\share instead though. At this time I've been completely unable to narrow it down to any specific criteria on what could be causing it, mostly due to the fact that it's pretty rare, and we're unable to reproduce at will. Has anyone run into this before? Steve Evans List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx

scevans

Posts:26

05/05/2008 7:07 PM
We set the homeDir attribute on our users accounts. The standard path is \\server\share\%username%. Occasionally a user will have his home drive mapped to \\server\share instead though. At this time I've been completely unable to narrow it down to any specific criteria on what could be causing it, mostly due to the fact that it's pretty rare, and we're unable to reproduce at will. Has anyone run into this before? Steve Evans List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx

miller4

Posts:12

05/05/2008 7:27 PM
Yes. A few others have also reported this. In our case all effected machines were in a certain OU. We have a small, single site AD with good bandwidth between member workstations and the DCs. With some testing, we able to locate it to being associated with the computer account in that OU, not related to the user account, but never could find a "smoking gun." The effected OU had desktop support people who never saw a GPO they didn't like. That is, mucho GPOs were applied to the machines. My hypothesis was that, under certain conditions, it was taking too long to read those GPOs, check that this 'n' that were already installed. etc. Try enabling synchronous logon => "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" in the computer configuration/administrative templates/system/logon section of some GPO applied to the effected machines or use gpedit.msc to set it locally if it's just a few machines. Also remove any incorrect drive mapping to \\server\share that you find in Windows Explorer for the effected users. See if that helps. It did for us. HTH, -mjm Steve Evans wrote: > We set the homeDir attribute on our users accounts. The standard path is > \\server\share\%username%. Occasionally a user will have his home drive > mapped to \\server\share instead though. At this time I've been completely > unable to narrow it down to any specific criteria on what could be causing > it, mostly due to the fact that it's pretty rare, and we're unable to > reproduce at will. > > Has anyone run into this before? > > > Steve Evans > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx

Marty1_0

Posts:73

05/06/2008 2:16 AM
There is a setting in GPO that does that... In the system.adm file, User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles, Connect home directory to root of the share Also is it random or always same user/PC ? // Bart On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Steve Evans <scevans@calpoly.edu> wrote: > We set the homeDir attribute on our users accounts. The standard path is > \\server\share\%username%. Occasionally a user will have his home drive > mapped to \\server\share instead though. At this time I've been > completely > unable to narrow it down to any specific criteria on what could be causing > it, mostly due to the fact that it's pretty rare, and we're unable to > reproduce at will. > > Has anyone run into this before? > > > Steve Evans > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx >

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