Login Scripts - If there is a Home Folder, they don't run???????

[Steven Parker]

Hello.

I have made a little progress on this issue. We are running Windows 2003
server using login scripts specified in user
account settings. Logging into one machine, the scripts run fine. Logging
into another, they don't even try to launch at all. No event log errors on
DC or client.

What we have found is that if a test user DOES NOT have a home folder
specified in their profile, the script runs fine on all machines. As soon as
you define a profile, it stops working on some of the systems.

Both machines are running Windows XP SP2, and both receive the same group
policy. They are in different OUs.

The machines were NOT built using the same image, but the same procedure was
supposedly followed for both.

Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I have googled the heck out of this
one.

Thanks
Steve Parker
Systems Analyst Senior
Lockheed Martin

 

[Andrei Ungureanu]

have you checked permissions (share & ntfs) on that home folder?

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[Tim Macaulay[MSFT]]

Steve,

You may try running a Filemon on the DC while the policy is in place. As
Andrei stated, it is probably a permissions issue. You may or may not see
the ACCESS DENIED message in the filemon log.

However, I would check to be sure that the SYSTEM account has Full Control
to the home folders. It is more than likely attempting to access the home
folder as the SYSTEM account when running the login script.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay, MCSD, MCSD.NET, MCAD, MCP
Microsoft Product Support - ADSI, Visual Studio, MSI
This posting is "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

 

[Steven Parker]

Hi Tim.
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked and SYSTEM has Full Control on those
folders.

After some more testing, I have found that the problem only occurs when the
user has a home folder AND their "My Documents" folder is redirected to
their home drive. If we remove the redirection, and delete the local
profile on the workstation, it runs fine.

Thanks in advance.

Steve