[THIN] Re: TS Home drive and appending Domain

That's quite a coincidence Mike, as I was explaining how this works to
another consultant on Friday.

This happens when you set the Home drive using the Group Policy method,
rather than the TS Properties in AD.

Either a user must have full control of their existing home drive folder
under, or it will create a new Home folder and append the .domainname to
the path. Refer to point 1 to 4 in the More Information section of
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821929.

You need to be careful here because if you are redirecting folders, such
as My Documents, to the home folder with %username% in the path, this
may end up as a different folder to the automatically created one that
may have %username%.domainname in the path, which is where you are
seeing a problem.

Personally I always create these folders during the provisioning of
users, then they are created with the correct permissions from the
start, and I don't run into these challenges.

The consultants response was to not map the home drive using a Group
Policy, and do it in the login script instead. These are other issues
around that, such as no setting the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment
variables correctly, etc.

Cheers,
Jeremy.

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On
Behalf Of msemon@ont.com
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:57 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] TS Home drive and appending Domain

Having and issue with the domain information being appended to the
username
on the Terminal Server Home drive share. I have implemented folder
redirection. The folders which have just the username and not the domain
name appended are seeing the redirected folders, however, those with the
domain name appended are not. All new users are getting the domain
appended
to their name. As I recall this was a "feature" of Windows 2003 SP1.
These
servers are Windows 2003 R2 SP2. Does anyone remember the fix for this.

Thanks,

Mike

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