Setting up home Folders in Active Directory
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I am trying to setup home folders for all my users in active directory and redirect their My Documents folder to the home folder on the Domain Controller 1>The idea is to save all data on the server so it can be backed up. This is what i have done so far with no luck. 1> Created user, Selected properties for the user, select the profiles tab, in the home folders group box i selected local path and provided a local path I also used the %username% so that it will automatically create a folder for the user. (which it currently does not do when the user logs in onto the domain) 2> To redirect myDocuments i went into the default domain policy and configured the redirection policy for mydocuments to point to the home folder. (With no success) 3> When i logged in with a test user no new folder for the user was created on the server and after i saved a text document in my documents it was all local to the workstation. What am i doing wrong or missing. Thanks for the help in advance Kourvoisier
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I am trying to setup home folders for all my users in active directory and redirect their My Documents folder to the home folder on the Domain Controller 1>The idea is to save all data on the server so it can be backed up. This is what i have done so far with no luck. 1> Created user, Selected properties for the user, select the profiles tab, in the home folders group box i selected local path and provided a local path I also used the %username% so that it will automatically create a folder for the user. (which it currently does not do when the user logs in onto the domain) 2> To redirect myDocuments i went into the default domain policy and configured the redirection policy for mydocuments to point to the home folder. (With no success) 3> When i logged in with a test user no new folder for the user was created on the server and after i saved a text document in my documents it was all local to the workstation. What am i doing wrong or missing. Thanks for the help in advance Kourvoisier
kourvoisier wrote:
i selected local path and provided a local path I also used the %username% so that it will automatically create a folder for the user.
Local path? you mean
"D:\Data\...". It is not possible to do that, you need to share the folder that you want to people to redirect it and put the path to that share name ex:"\\server\sharefoldername\"and configure appropriate permission for that folder. The reason that it is failure because when you try to access on the client computer, it will check the local path"D:\Data\...", so the client could not find this local path. Try to read this article[^] and it might give you some idea.