I've got a new user with a new PC on my network. My Documents are redirected to a drive letter that is mapped to the user's home directory on the file server. This has been working with all other users great for the last several years.
When this user would create Word documents, shortly after creating them, they would report in the title bar as being [Read Only], yet these were new word docs. If he tried to save them to his home directory, it claimed he did not have appropriate permissions. If he saved locally, it works fine. This also began happening with Excel, Project, and Visio documents as well.
I have tried resetting permissions to the user's home directory, replacing the NIC, moving user to a different switch port, new patch cable, all to no avail.
Finally, I created a second Active Directory user object for this user. I granted this second user object access to the first user object's home directory (Full Access). Everything was working great for a few days. Word docs will stay open all day lon without going to a [Read Only] state in the title bar, and the user hasn't had any issues for about 4 days now. Until today. When trying to save a Visio diagram to the network location, he rec'd an error 113. From a KB article I found on MS website for Visio 2000, this appears to be a permissions issue to the network share. It smells like the issue that started this whole mess in the first place.
Oddly enough, this user is th only one with issues. No other users have complained of similar issues, particularly none of those on the same LAN segment as he.
Any ideas? The only thing left to replace at this point is the entire PC for the user.
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