Redirected folders become unavailable

[Roman Tumaykin]

Hi all,

I'm completely stuck here. I have Vista Business. My servers are at the
colocation. I am accessing them with NCP Secure entry client VPN which
allows me to establish a pre-Windows login VPN connection. Personal folders
are located on a DFS share which can be accessed via
\\domain\shares\personal\%username% or
\\domain.com\shares\personal\%username%.

First I've tried to set up redirected folders via a group policy. Path was
set to \\domain\shares\personal\%username%. All worked for the servers at
the colo - all My Documents on them were redirected successfully. With Vista
I was getting a Folder redirection error saying that it could not find a
path (or syntax is incorrect). What? Just before I applied a policy I have
tried to access that path and it worked... Then I tried to access that path
with explorer and it is indeed throwing an error. Tried to access the path
in the form of \\domain.com\shares\personal\%username% - and it worked in
explorer. Went and changed group policy to use new path. Restarted. Same
error. Now the new path is not accessible through explorer but the old path
IS working fine.

So I decided - screw it. I will redirect folders manually. Same thing! After
I redirect them to a new location - after a reboot - everything is not
accessible!

Please help... What am I doing wrong...

Thank you

Roman

 

[Roman Tumaykin]

I've figured it out. Basically one of the DFS server's NetBIOS name was
different than a DNS name. I did not have any WINS servers on my network,
but DFS always used NetBIOS instead of DNS. I read an article about
modifying DFS to use DNS instead, but decided that it is easier for me to
add a WINS server and specify it in the VPN configuration.

Now everything is working as it shoud. One thing though is that Win Server
2003 policy moved all but Pictures folder to a DFS share.

Not a problem though.

Regards

Roman