Foder Redirection

[Henry]

Hi

I tried to setup folder redirection to redirect My Documents folder to a
network folder. But it only works if the user has administrative rights on
the computer. How I setup folder redirection if the user has only restrict
privileges?

Thanks to any advice

Henry

 

[Paul Sampson]

This should work fine, even with normal user priviledges
on the PC, make sure they have rights to create folders
in the network area where you point the redirection.

 

[Buz [MSFT]]

Hello Henry,

Make sure the folder you are redirecting the users My Documents to is shared
and the user has Full Control on the share permissions. Then verify that the
NTFS permissions are correct for this user as well. Full Control will
probably be needed for the redirected My Docs folder.

To easily test before implementing this, log on as the user and go to the
path you had stated for the folder redirection and verify you can create
files and folders, delete objects etc....

For example if I want to redirect Joe_User's My Docs to
\\Server1\%Username%\MyDocs I could easily share the MyDocs folder and
modify the NTFS permissions first, then log on as Joe_User and verify that I
can read, write, create, and delete from that directory. Please Note:
Redirecting folders to a mapped network drive is not supported in Windows
2000, instead use a UNC path.

The above is just an easy way to troubleshoot this and manually set it up.

In addition the following articles discuss setting this up via Group Policy:

232692 Folder Redirection Feature in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=232692

272723 Administrator Cannot Access Another User's Redirected My Documents
Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=272723

274443 HOW TO: Dynamically Create Secure Redirected Folders By Using Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=274443

Here is an oddball issue that only applies to Windows 2003 Server:

814611 User Is Not Granted Exclusive Access After You Click the "Grant the
User
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=814611


Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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[Henry]

Thank you Paul and Buz. Probably the problem is that I give permissions to
read and write in the network folder, but not full control. I will test
later and let you know.

Thanks

Henry