HOMESHARE not working properly. 1

[Albion]

I have all of my user directories seperated under D:\Users\<department>\<username>. I have shared D:\Users as HOMESHARE. When I use \\<servername>\HOMESHARE\<department>\%username% in the user profile some of my users map it properly but most map their home directory as just \\<servername>\HOMESHARE. Sometimes it doesn't even map at all. All my other shares always map perfectly from my login script. Could it be that the setting in Users and Groups/User/Profile/Home is interfering with the mapping in my login script? I do this because my few Win9x clients will not map their homedrive otherwise.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

-al

 

[CoolClark]

Are they NT4.0 clients?

 

[Albion]

I have XP, 2000, NT and 9x clients. But it seems that it doesn't matter, when someone logs in from any OS something weird happens most the time. Either they make just \\<servername>\HOMESHARE, the map nothing at all, or it maps correctly (80% of the time it's one of the first two). Could it be that the Primary Domain controller is Win2000 and I have 2 Backup DCs that are WinNT 4 and when they log into one of the NT 4 DCs they get the home dir problem? I am migrating them soon but I need them there for the time being. Is it possible to demote an NT 4 DC to a member server so no one can log in through them?

I am pulling my hair out here (not like I have much to begin with), and I have users beating down my door wondering where their home directory is. I tested this last night on 3 different machines and it worked fine, I just don't understand.

-al

 

[CoolClark]

Windows NT and lower can't map to folders beyond the share. Since you are sharing HOMESHARE, NT and below can only map to \\yourserver\HOMESHARE. Win2k and above can map to \\<servername>\HOMESHARE\<department>\%username%

To verify this, try creating a mapping manually from an NT box and a Win2k box.

 

[Albion]

Yup, that was the problem. So basically I need to share each directory individually until I get everyone on Win2000 and above.

Thanks much.

-al

 

[CoolClark]

Yup, that's the only way to do it AFAIK.