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Cannot access Documents folder when using redirect

Hi All,

I am having problems with redirection when using DFS on a Windows 2008 server. We currently have DFS setup for our network user shares in the form of \\org.local\filestore\Users\%username%\documents with in group policy.

When the a user first logs in , the folders are created on the server for the user. But the problem is when we try to access the folders ie. Documents, favourites,contacts , it comes up with access denied.

Share permissions are full control for everyone and NTFS shares are modify for the owner of the folder.

Has anyone come across this problem ?

Many thanks

Mo

Mike Thomas

Assuming you have applied the permissons at the %username% level and correclty propogated them to the child have you set permissions to allow users to traverse the folders higher up? so \filestore and \users etc

Also I am pretty sure it is recomended and may give better results to have a shorter path

so maybe try shortening the below (if that is possible)

\\org.local\filestore\Users\%username%\documents

to

\\org.local\filestore\%username%

Mo_Hulk

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my current permissions are

creator owner: special ( full control )
system: ( Full control )
Domain Admins: ( Full Control )
Domain Users: read, read & execute, list folder contents

I am unfortunately unable to shorten the DFS path as this is what the client has requested.

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