Re: XP logon script drive map timing question

While on the subject of Roaming Profiles and login scripts, and hoping
to avoid re-inventing the wheel, has anyone else set up a computer lab
environment where users can drop-in, login to the workstations and that
would connect them to their profiles and data stored on the server?

We're using Windows 2003 Server and I've already joined the Server to
Campus A.D., and I know it's a matter of Group Policy for the Folder
Redirection et al, but I guess I HAVE to use a login script to set up
the shares/networked-drives? I guess I originally thought it could all
be set via Group Policy.

Also, anyone have a relevant login script they would want to share?

Thanks,
Jack Burris
SSCL
3-3770

Gary Lum wrote:
> Do the roaming profiles need to go thru a mapped drive (i.e. h:\)? Our
> roaming profiles are pointed to "\\servername\sharename\%username "
> instead of using a mapped drive. Redirected folders are moved in the
> same fashion. We also use DFS to add in some redundancy and
> flexibility.It's worked rather well and haven't had any issues related
> to downloaded roaming profiles
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> Dave Patterson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our XP clients currently login both to Novell Netware 6.5 & Windows
>> 2003 domains. The clients have several important parts of their file
>> system redirected to drives mapped to novell shares (my documents,
>> profiles etc). I would like to migrate off of Novell in phases, so I
>> am experimenting with mapping the redirected files to Windows 2003
>> file servers shares, but I am running into a timing problem. My AD
>> logon script is mapping a drive to the new windows file server where
>> several roaming profile items are stored, but 70% or so of the time
>> the XP shell loads first and complains that the drive path is
>> missing. When I look into the Windows Explorer, the drive map is
>> there and available. Files added to the desktop show up in the
>> redriected folder on the mapped drive and vice verse, but the files
>> already there don't show on the desktop and error messages appear.
>> 30% or so of the time, the drive letter manages to map before the OS
>> goes looking for it.
>>
>> I'd like to compel the XP clients to wait for the drive mapping to
>> finish before looking for the redirected desktop files etc. Any
>> tips? Thank you in advance.
>>
>
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