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Accessing User Folders On Server?

Mar 8, 2012

I have a Windows Home Server v.1 I set it up nearly a year ago, and everything runs fine.I have 3 different user accounts that are password protected.On my PC, i have been running Windows 7 and using the server as my My Documents folder.I recently installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on an old Hard Drive, and i can't seem to access any folder on the server that isn't already given public permission. Whenever i try to access my User folder i get an access denied message, but no prompt to enter a password so i can use it.

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User Folders Moved In Server 2003

Jan 12, 2012

Windows Server 2003, XP and W7 desktops. I have a growing number of user folders that are seemingly in the wrong place. When I am looking at the directories locally on the server, there are some document folders that are directly in the Users folder, rather than existing as subfolders within a user's folder. In fact, the user's folder is not present at all. So rather than Joe Smith's folder structure being 'Users/jsmith/', there are a series of folders under 'Users' that are named 'Documents'. As I click on each one though, I see in the address bar 'Users/jsmith' etc. In the tree, there is no folder named jsmith, but in the address bar there is. And in the address bar, there is no folder named 'Documents'.This seems to be limited to newer users and older users who have Windows 7 PCs, but I don't know for sure if that's the source of the change.

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ASA 5580 - AD / XP SysPrep And Automatically Creating User Folders

Jan 25, 2012

I've only worked with 7/asa5580 in an Active Directory setting. Sysprepping to clone those machines with default profiles with unattends was very easy, but XP is a different story. I'm now faced with moving several buildings with XP machines to a few Server 2008 R2 boxes, which all will all be in one location. There are around 700 machines but this will be a building by building process, maybe 100 at a time over the course of a year or more. Moving these machines to Win 7 is not an option. There are several buildings but they are all in the same town, all connected with fiber. I do not manage the physical network. My plan is to just offer each user thier mapped network home drive and possibly redirected folders. I'm just keeping it basic.

How important is it to sysprep these XP machines after I do clean installs? I've heard it's very important but also know a lot of people on AD that just clone machines without sysprepping. I've heard not sysprepping can screw with WSUS, but in the years up to this point the machines on Novell have been cloned without sysprep and WSUS worked fine.

Also, will Sites give me the advantage of forcing groups/buildings of machines to authenticate to a specific DC? Otherwise I only know of Sites to allow you to control the replication between servers over WAN. What other benefits is there to using Sites for each building?

If I'm running a few DC/FS's, how to handle DNS? Each server that needs DNS installed will have it installed per requirement, but as for configuring the workstations DNS settings, should I dedicate one server to DNS or have two, or something different?

My last question is about folder permission inheritance. My previous experience, I created a folder inheritance system where when the user was created, their home drive pointed to a folder using \%username%, and a folder would be automatically created, give ownership to the user, and inherit permissions to only view that folder and no one elses. It works brilliantly. My problem is that when I use group policy to deploy folder redirections, I couldn't figure out a way to automatically create folders. I ended up pointing the redirection policy back to their own home folder. It ended up working out OK, but whenever the users look in their network drive they could see the redirected folders.

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User Cannot Log Into Domain?

Mar 22, 2012

I have a Active Directory user that cannot log onto any computer that's on my organizational domain. The error is "You cannot log on because the logon method you are using is not allowed on this computer"

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Changed Domain For Workgroup / Can't Log Into User

Jan 29, 2012

We have a computer running Windows 2000 Pro that used to connect to a domain at work. Upon bootup, it asks for the user/password.Yesterday we tried to connect it to a little home network by changing the domain to a workgroup with a different name (network name that i used at home) as well. Now when it boots up, asks for a user/password, but now it does not recognize my user name and password.I can log in as an administrator to the Workgroup with the new name. but i cannot access the old Domain with its user and passwords. I tried to change back to the old name and to domain, but when doing that i get and error messsage which says: The following error occurred validating the name "xxxxxxx" (network name that I use at home) this condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem. so I'm not sure if a should run the clear DNS cache. and if in doing that I'll be able to restored it back to the stage that i was before I made the changes.