ReD-DaWg-OnE

I am having some troubles and I am looking for some advice on my troubles, or maybe a better way to accomplish what I am trying to get done.

Here is what I am trying to do;

Setup roaming profiles and have the users connect to two network drives on the server (Domain controller also holds all of the profiles and is the network storage.) one of which will act as my documents folder, and the other will be a drive that everyone connects to and is able to access the same information.

Here is what I am having trouble with;

1. I have setup the users and the have the profile point to a network share which is on a separate partion on the server which is called profiles. They can connect to the share when they login but they aren’t allowed to update the roaming profile.

2. I also have no idea how to connect more then one network drive when they login, so any help on that would be greatly appreciated.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated and very helpful; you can either reply to the thread or email me at gsmith@spaceape.net

NoReason

Best way to map the network drives is to create a logon batch file and add it to a GPO. If you want everyone in that domain to get the same drives, put the script in the Default Domain Policy GPO, (I use Microsoft's GPMC to do this - it's more user friendly if you haven't done GPO's before) under user settings and logon scripts.
A typical logon batch file is a textpad document that is saved as a .bat file
It will look something like this:
***********************************
net use x: \\computername\sharename
net use y: \\computername\sharename

***********************************
where x and y is will be the drive letter you want to assign.

As for the Roaming Profilesa and documents folder, make sure that the folders the profiles and documents are pointing to are shared folders. Make sure the folders have the domain users added to the security tab with full control or at least modify. Also put in authenticated users too.


Please post back with any questions. I did post alot at once.

ReDrUm2003

I agree with Scott for your drive directory.

As far as the users not having permission to edit their own profile. You will need to ensure that the Root folder containing the profile has the correct permissions. These Permissions should be the same as you would see on the folder located on the C:\Documents and Settings folder on the a workstation joined to the domain.

When I have to setup roaming profiles I setup a folder called “Profiles” that is shared and that does not inherit permissions. When the user logs in for the 1st time It will create the a folder the same as the USERSNAME and reset the permissions for that folder so that only the user can have access to it. But if the user doesn’t have sufficient permission to create a new folder in the “Profiles Folder” you will see errors.