Home Share/DFS Folder Problem

[sphbecker]

We would like to use DFS to manage our user’s home shares. I updated a test
user’s account in AD to connect a drive to
\\mydomain.com\dfsroot\city\username, also set "My Documents" redirection to
the user path with a GPO. When he logs in the drive maps to
\\mydomain.com\dfsroot instead of to the full path. The %homeshare% variable
is correctly populated and "My Documents" are directed to the full path as
expected. He can type NET USE %HOMESHARE% to manually map. What could be
going on here?

Our domain level is 2000 and clients are XP.

 

[Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]]

We would like to use DFS to manage our user’s home shares. I updated a
test
user’s account in AD to connect a drive to
\\mydomain.com\dfsroot\city\username, also set "My Documents" redirection
to
the user path with a GPO. When he logs in the drive maps to
\\mydomain.com\dfsroot instead of to the full path. The %homeshare%
variable
is correctly populated and "My Documents" are directed to the full path as
expected. He can type NET USE %HOMESHARE% to manually map. What could be
going on here?

Our domain level is 2000 and clients are XP.

Can the user manually map a drive to
\\mydomain.com\dfsroot\city\username?

Try the following in the logon batch file (assuming you are using a .bat
file in a logon script that you specified in the user's AD properties):
net use h: \\mydomain.com\dfsroot\city\%username%

Can the user map the drive manually using the variable above?

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCT
Microsoft Certified Trainer

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