all users' My Documents folders = Administrator's Documents? 1

[Eupher]

I have several XP workstations with multiple user accounts. Right now they are in a workgroup, but we will soon be migrating to an Active Directory domain, with roaming profiles and folder redirection. In preparing for this transition, I've noticed that the My Documents folders under Documents and Settings in all the accounts on these few machines are named "Administrator's Documents" instead of "username's documents" (where username is the XP login, i.e. "smith" or "jones" or whatever), as well as the child Pictures and Music folders. The folder ownership seems okay, i.e. they're owned by the respective users. Why is this happening and how do I correct it?

Perhaps a related, and maybe unimportant, issue - on some other XP boxes the My Documents folders are named with the username, i.e. "gcleveland's Documents" - whereas on yet other units the folders are named according to the user's description, i.e. "Grover Cleveland's Documents." I don't know whether this is a problem at all, but it seems for the sake of consistency throughout the network there ought to be a standard convention for this sort of thing. Is there a way to set this with a group policy or a registry hack or something? Thanks for any advice.

Ken S.

 

[Eupher]

Okay, after further investigation, I think I see what probably happened. When the configuration for the loadset was created, someone was logged in as Administrator and simply copied the Administrator profile to the default user profile. I found that if I simply delete the "Administrator's Documents" folder from the default user profile, when new users are added XP creates a generic "My Documents" folder for the user at first logon. If necessary I can back up users' My Documents data, then delete the user profiles and/or their My Documents folders, then when they logon again a new, correct My Documents folder is created for them.

Ken S.

 

[Eupher]

Or better, copy the "Default User" profile from a machine that has it set up better.

Ken S.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;321281

 

[Eupher]

Thanks for the link, bcastner, that's exactly what I needed!

Ken S.

 

[bcastner]

Eupher,

Best. I missed this subtle point several hundred times in my past. Alright, maybe ten times.

Bill Castner