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aboyer
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Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:
home directory in a link or root |
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I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside under the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am I way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks! |
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Glenn L
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Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:56 am Post subject:
Re: home directory in a link or root |
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you will need to create a share to each users home folder.
You will then need to create a DFS link (link name must be the users logon
name) for each user that points to the users shared folder.
You can then map a home directory on the user account object to
\\domain\dfsroot\%username%.
This is the only way I can think of to get what you want.
--
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000/2003 + Security
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside under
the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am I
way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks! |
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aboyer
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Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:17 am Post subject:
Re: home directory in a link or root |
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Thanks Glenn. Your idea is great, but may not quite fit my evironment. I'll
elaborate... I work in a school district, and have about 2,000 students, so
to make a target for each student kind of defeats the purpose. What I was
hoping for was to eliminate the "H:" drive that goes right to the users
folder and replace that with the dfs root mapping, where they will find all
of their resources, including their home folder. Maybe I am trying to do
something that DFS isn't made to do, but I thought that the whole purpose of
DFS was to put all of your resources in one place, is the home directory the
exception? Thanks for all the help!
"Glenn L" wrote:
| Quote: | you will need to create a share to each users home folder.
You will then need to create a DFS link (link name must be the users logon
name) for each user that points to the users shared folder.
You can then map a home directory on the user account object to
\\domain\dfsroot\%username%.
This is the only way I can think of to get what you want.
--
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000/2003 + Security
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside under
the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am I
way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks!
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Dan Lovinger [MSFT]
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:
Re: home directory in a link or root |
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Are you trying to make the DFS link path exactly \\domain\dfsroot\%username%
.... or \\domain\dfsroot\aboyer, \\domain\dfsroot\danlo, etc.
If the former ... no, DFS does not do client side environment variable
substition on the link path. The link path needs to be a path you could open
directly. We are thinking about this kind of path rewriting, but it would go
(well) beyond DFS in scope and would be part of a future release.
--
Dan Lovinger
Microsoft Corporation
Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E58C14B3-C06E-4065-9D4A-8C0E1FD59E8F@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Thanks Glenn. Your idea is great, but may not quite fit my evironment.
I'll
elaborate... I work in a school district, and have about 2,000 students,
so
to make a target for each student kind of defeats the purpose. What I was
hoping for was to eliminate the "H:" drive that goes right to the users
folder and replace that with the dfs root mapping, where they will find
all
of their resources, including their home folder. Maybe I am trying to do
something that DFS isn't made to do, but I thought that the whole purpose
of
DFS was to put all of your resources in one place, is the home directory
the
exception? Thanks for all the help!
"Glenn L" wrote:
you will need to create a share to each users home folder.
You will then need to create a DFS link (link name must be the users
logon
name) for each user that points to the users shared folder.
You can then map a home directory on the user account object to
\\domain\dfsroot\%username%.
This is the only way I can think of to get what you want.
--
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000/2003 + Security
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD49C7A6-DB90-4BA4-A958-B04A1F9BF278@microsoft.com...
I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck
on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside
under
the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make
it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am
I
way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks!
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aboyer
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:
Re: home directory in a link or root |
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Thanks Dan... Yes, I was hoping for a variable. I work in a school district,
and if I did a link for every student and faculty member, I would have to
make about 2000 of them, and even if I made a few roots to split them up a
bit, the students would still have to go searching through a large number of
folders to find their own. To me this seems a little much, what do you
think? I was hoping to eliminate numerous mapped drives and consolidate all
the resources into one, but I guess that's wishful thinking. Thanks for your
help.
"Dan Lovinger [MSFT]" wrote:
| Quote: | Are you trying to make the DFS link path exactly \\domain\dfsroot\%username%
.... or \\domain\dfsroot\aboyer, \\domain\dfsroot\danlo, etc.
If the former ... no, DFS does not do client side environment variable
substition on the link path. The link path needs to be a path you could open
directly. We are thinking about this kind of path rewriting, but it would go
(well) beyond DFS in scope and would be part of a future release.
--
Dan Lovinger
Microsoft Corporation
Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E58C14B3-C06E-4065-9D4A-8C0E1FD59E8F@microsoft.com...
Thanks Glenn. Your idea is great, but may not quite fit my evironment.
I'll
elaborate... I work in a school district, and have about 2,000 students,
so
to make a target for each student kind of defeats the purpose. What I was
hoping for was to eliminate the "H:" drive that goes right to the users
folder and replace that with the dfs root mapping, where they will find
all
of their resources, including their home folder. Maybe I am trying to do
something that DFS isn't made to do, but I thought that the whole purpose
of
DFS was to put all of your resources in one place, is the home directory
the
exception? Thanks for all the help!
"Glenn L" wrote:
you will need to create a share to each users home folder.
You will then need to create a DFS link (link name must be the users
logon
name) for each user that points to the users shared folder.
You can then map a home directory on the user account object to
\\domain\dfsroot\%username%.
This is the only way I can think of to get what you want.
--
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000/2003 + Security
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD49C7A6-DB90-4BA4-A958-B04A1F9BF278@microsoft.com...
I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck
on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside
under
the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make
it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am
I
way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks!
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Jason
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Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:16 am Post subject:
Re: home directory in a link or root |
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I am working on a DFS setup and want to include my home folders in it
as well. In some testing I have setup a folder called Users and then
placed all my user folders in it. I shared users and added it as a DFS
link. In my user accounts I set the home folder to
\\domain\dfsroot\users\%username% and it seems to work. I did have some
permissions issues when I created the user accounts from my second
server. But I am still testing.
Maybe this info will help
Jason
aboyer wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks Dan... Yes, I was hoping for a variable. I work in a school district,
and if I did a link for every student and faculty member, I would have to
make about 2000 of them, and even if I made a few roots to split them up a
bit, the students would still have to go searching through a large number of
folders to find their own. To me this seems a little much, what do you
think? I was hoping to eliminate numerous mapped drives and consolidate all
the resources into one, but I guess that's wishful thinking. Thanks for your
help.
"Dan Lovinger [MSFT]" wrote:
Are you trying to make the DFS link path exactly \\domain\dfsroot\%username%
.... or \\domain\dfsroot\aboyer, \\domain\dfsroot\danlo, etc.
If the former ... no, DFS does not do client side environment variable
substition on the link path. The link path needs to be a path you could open
directly. We are thinking about this kind of path rewriting, but it would go
(well) beyond DFS in scope and would be part of a future release.
--
Dan Lovinger
Microsoft Corporation
Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E58C14B3-C06E-4065-9D4A-8C0E1FD59E8F@microsoft.com...
Thanks Glenn. Your idea is great, but may not quite fit my evironment.
I'll
elaborate... I work in a school district, and have about 2,000 students,
so
to make a target for each student kind of defeats the purpose. What I was
hoping for was to eliminate the "H:" drive that goes right to the users
folder and replace that with the dfs root mapping, where they will find
all
of their resources, including their home folder. Maybe I am trying to do
something that DFS isn't made to do, but I thought that the whole purpose
of
DFS was to put all of your resources in one place, is the home directory
the
exception? Thanks for all the help!
"Glenn L" wrote:
you will need to create a share to each users home folder.
You will then need to create a DFS link (link name must be the users
logon
name) for each user that points to the users shared folder.
You can then map a home directory on the user account object to
\\domain\dfsroot\%username%.
This is the only way I can think of to get what you want.
--
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000/2003 + Security
"aboyer" <aboyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD49C7A6-DB90-4BA4-A958-B04A1F9BF278@microsoft.com...
I am setting up dfs and have a number of links to shares, but am stuck
on
home directories. I would like the user's home directory to reside
under
the
dfs root along with everything else, but can't figure out how to make
it
work. I tried "\\domain\dfsroot\%username%" and other variations. Am
I
way
off the mark? I really need to make this work, my boss is waiting
impatiently. Thanks!
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