I am an administrator on a portion of our fairly massive AD structure, and at one of the sites I manage, we are having a strange issue with the home folder mappings. This site does have a fairly slow connection to the server, which i think MAY be related.
We set the users home folder as the H: Drive, connected to \\server\users\%username% in the profile tab of Active Directory. Most of the time, when the user logs on, this maps correctly. However, once in awhile, when the user logs on thier H: drive is mapped to \\server\users instead.
Most of the users home folders were set in AD with \\server\users\%username%,
but some were set by typing the exact path to thier home folder in. This error happens in either case. I know that its not a permissions issue as a user will map to the wrong location, log out then back in, and be mapped correctly.
There are no other login scripts attached to these accounts that modify the H: Drive.
I would think that the speed of the connection would be the cause, and that perhaps the system had not retrieved all necessary data from AD prior to completing the logon, but 1) isn't that something that should be maintained by the local cache, and 2) wouldn't that simply cause a home folder to not be mapped at all?
It just doesn't make much sense to me. Any ideas?
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