user loses mapped home directory

I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

The user can open explorer to the 'computer' folder, click the Map Network
Drive icon in the toolbar, and put a check in the box for "Reconnect at
Logon" for the mapped drive.

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"GJarvie756" wrote in message
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I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with
Active
directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of
their
home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are
random.
I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

From: "GJarvie756"

| I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
| directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
| directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
| lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
| home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
| them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
| problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
| I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

Is this property set in the User Account on the Domain ?

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I am dealing with young children and some staff I work in a K-12 school that
do not understand this and at the root of the folder they have no access
permissions. Otherwise they would drop all their files off at the root folder
and with 900 students this becomes a problem. The mapping is set properly for
each in their user profiles. Yes, I can map the drive back but this is not
the solution since it happens from time to time.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

The user can open explorer to the 'computer' folder, click the Map Network
Drive icon in the toolbar, and put a check in the box for "Reconnect at
Logon" for the mapped drive.

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"GJarvie756" wrote in message
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I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with
Active
directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of
their
home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are
random.
I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

Yes it is. And it maps correctly. But a few days later all they go to log in
and they are only mapped to the main folder. They can sometimes log off and
back on and it will correct its self but sometimes they have to right click
and select disconnect then log off and back on. I have a similar folder for
the students and have all the students inside of it but permissons set so
they can only access their folder inside.

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

From: "GJarvie756"

| I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
| directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
| directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
| lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
| home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
| them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
| problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
| I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

Is this property set in the User Account on the Domain ?

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We have almost the exact same problem. Users have a "home folder" set in
their AD properties. Mapping a drive letter to a \\server\users\username
location. The server is running fully patched Windows Storage Server 2003
SP2: new Dell box with plenty of memory, horsepower, and space. Most
workstations are fully patched XP SP2.

We map other drives through a logon script. The problems are very
sporadic... home would simply map to "users" rather then to "users\username"
-- generally if they logoff and logon the mapping is corrected, but sometimes
the mapping will "break" during a user's session... randomly change from a
working "users\username" to "users" and cause them problems (unable to save,
etc.)...

This morning I added an "\\server\user\%username%" entry to a different
drive letter from the logon script. I'm going to see if that is anymore
reliable then the "home folder" has been.

"GJarvie756" wrote:

Yes it is. And it maps correctly. But a few days later all they go to log in
and they are only mapped to the main folder. They can sometimes log off and
back on and it will correct its self but sometimes they have to right click
and select disconnect then log off and back on. I have a similar folder for
the students and have all the students inside of it but permissons set so
they can only access their folder inside.

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

From: "GJarvie756"

| I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
| directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
| directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
| lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
| home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
| them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
| problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
| I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

Is this property set in the User Account on the Domain ?

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We have the same issues. Could this be a bug in a recent patch. seems we did
not start seeing this issue untill the last 2 months.

V.


"ttfnmsvstasx" wrote:

We have almost the exact same problem. Users have a "home folder" set in
their AD properties. Mapping a drive letter to a \\server\users\username
location. The server is running fully patched Windows Storage Server 2003
SP2: new Dell box with plenty of memory, horsepower, and space. Most
workstations are fully patched XP SP2.

We map other drives through a logon script. The problems are very
sporadic... home would simply map to "users" rather then to "users\username"
-- generally if they logoff and logon the mapping is corrected, but sometimes
the mapping will "break" during a user's session... randomly change from a
working "users\username" to "users" and cause them problems (unable to save,
etc.)...

This morning I added an "\\server\user\%username%" entry to a different
drive letter from the logon script. I'm going to see if that is anymore
reliable then the "home folder" has been.

"GJarvie756" wrote:

Yes it is. And it maps correctly. But a few days later all they go to log in
and they are only mapped to the main folder. They can sometimes log off and
back on and it will correct its self but sometimes they have to right click
and select disconnect then log off and back on. I have a similar folder for
the students and have all the students inside of it but permissons set so
they can only access their folder inside.

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

From: "GJarvie756"

| I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
| directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
| directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
| lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
| home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
| them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
| problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
| I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

Is this property set in the User Account on the Domain ?

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We have the same issue at our location, has anyone figured out a
solution to this that works?

Don Simmons


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We're having the same problem here - We have mapped the U: drive to user home
folders using the tool provided in the Profile tab, in Active Directory Users
and Computers, and periodically the mapping resets for no apparent reason to
the root of the DFS share that the user folders are hosted on. Resetting the
entry in the Profile tab manually for each user as they report it (if they
report it), seems to work... but this is hardly an enterprise level solution.
It would take decades to sort through hundreds of profiles and reset each
one. Also, there's no way to tell who is experiencing the problem unless they
log in and find that they can't access their home folder.

It is interesting to note that for users affected by the problem, the U:
drive mapping points to the DFS root where we have stored the user home
folders, but when using cmd the home folder that immediately appears is the
U: drive, pointing to the folder there as though the U: drive were mapped
directly to the share. That is to say, instead of seeing U: (which points to
the user's home folder), we see U:\users\username\ as though U: were mapped
to our DFS root.

The question is why it's 'resetting' to begin with. When we initially mapped
each home folder, we used the %username% variable
(\\ourdomain\DFSshare\Userfolders\%username%) and it generated a folder
structure for us with the appropriate permissions for each user, and
everything was fine. Then users began to report the problem, and I initially
thought it was a permissions issue, but that seems not to be the case, as the
permissions are fine. They all have the appropriate user mapped to them, and
inherit permissions from the previous folder in the structure which allows
administrators to access all user folders.

I can't find any other mentions of this problem anywhere on the internet,
except one which seemed to suggest that it had something to do with the
%username% variable not returning a value and as a result the drive not being
mapped.

Another solution indicated that using "fast logons", or the policy object
which requires PCs to wait for the network before logging in, can cause this
problem, but this policy was already set to wait for the network to resolve
another issue we were having with other drive mappings not appearing. That
turned out to be resolved through a hotfix (XP machines don't get Server 2008
group policy preferences without a hotfix). So it doesn't seem to affect the
problem either way.

Anyway, this problem is very frustrating as there seems to be no avenue to
take to track down what is actually causing it. In a test environment, it
continues to occur intermittently, so we know it's not an issue with our own
software interfering with the mapping. It must have something to do with the
way the client machines are interfacing with the server. We have 2000, XP,
and Vista machines which are all experiencing this problem. HELP!

"simmons.d" wrote:


We have the same issue at our location, has anyone figured out a
solution to this that works?

Don Simmons


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I should have mentioned, we're using Windows Server 2008, not 2003. So
obviously this problem has carried over into the new version. Our AD Domain
is 2003 functional level, however.

Our company has just started having this issue. The issue is sporadic
and seems to be happening to our senior management (It may be the people
actually using it though). We have the following setup:

-80 users logging onto different 4 sites
-3 2003 domain controllers. The functional level has not been raised.
-1 Exchange server

In AD we have the Home folder to connect as the "H" drive and the path
set to: \\server\user_folders\username. What happens is that the user
loses connection to "username" but the mapping is still there. The
mapping goes to \\server\user_folders\. At that point the user does not
have the permissions to use that directory and they get an error. I
simply tell the user to log off and log back on. After that the user is
fine.

We have Shadow copies running where the users' folders are located.


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We've had this problem for several years. Does anyone know if there is a fix
for it in SP 3?

"GJarvie756" wrote:

I have 250 workstations connected to a Windows 2003 server domain with Active
directory. Sometimes when users log in to the system, they lose their home
directory which I have set up for them in a folder titled staff. When they
lose the connection their path reverts to the staff folder instead of their
home folder. I set up the home dirictory in their profiles, I do not have
them in log in scripts. Does anyone out there have a resolution to this
problem. It does not appear to be switch related the disconnects are random.
I can remap the drive and it will connect back to their folder.

All of our machines have been updated to SP3 so it appears to happen
with that. I just did away with the profile mapping in our company and
just have a log on script that maps all the drives. I haven't lost any
mappings yet... Time will tell though.


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I'm having the exact same problem.
Chosaru, have you noticed any problems with using the profile mapping
instead of mapping through the Home Folder?

I'm dying, cause this is happening to my boss more frequently than
anyone else!


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I started having the same problem unfortunately. Infrequently with
XPsp2 but heavily with XPsp3 to the point that it is affecting our
operations. Luckily the “My Documents” policy redirection has not been
affected but for those who use the "H:" drive it has been unpleasant.

As a work around I wrote a short script that removes the home directory
drive of H:, grabs the profile setting and then remaps it thereby
accomplishing the same purpose and overriding the automatic mechanism.
I attached the vbs to a logon policy in the users OU to make it work.

Good luck and I expect we will eventually figure this one out but I do
not have the time at the moment. (See Attached)

On Error Resume Next
Dim objNet : Set objNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set ADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & ADSysInfo.Username)
objNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "H:", Force
objNet.MapNetworkDrive "H:", objUser.homeDirectory


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