roaming profile directory permission setting.

[LoJACK]

Hi everyone,

I was playing around with the roaming profiles. and I have my Win 2K server setup as following for the roaming profile. Well this is the directory structure that I have for the file path:

\\Server\F$\Profiles\TestAccount

I gave the following groups full access rights to the following folders in the Security tab. None of the folders are set to share.

F$ - Administrators, Authenticated Users
Profiles - Administrators, Authenticated Users
TestAccount - Administrators, Authenticated Users

But everytime I try to logon with the roaming profile I get the following error message:
"You do not have permission to access your central profile located at \\Server\F$\Profiles\TestAccount"

Do I have to set every user profile folders to share? I don't really want to do that because I don't want to have hundreds of user profile folders showing up as share folder when I browse the server.

And can you please tell me what folder needs what permission in order for it to work.

Thanx,
LoJACK

 

[karmic]

"\\Server\F$\Profiles\TestAccount"

try this:

\\Server\TestAccount



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[LoJACK]

I eliminate the F$ and it is working fine now..

thanx for the help tho karmic

LoJACK

 

[LoJACK]

just curious... is there anyway that I can leave the F$ share in the directory and not share the Profile folder and still allow the users to access their profiles and other files?

LoJACK

 

[karmic]

F$ is generally an admin share. You really don't want to do that... if everything works the way its set up, you're probably better off leaving it as is. Don't make it too complicated



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[LoJACK]

One more thing..
inside the user properties, the Home Folder is just a personal folder for the users to store their personal information right?

Thanx for your help karmic

LoJACK

 

[karmic]

yes sir, that's what it is.

If you have more drive mappings to put in per user and are using login scripts, it's usually worth it to throw the home directory into the login script. Keep it all in one place.

Have fun

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