"My Documents" folder set to READ-ONLY at first logon!?

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We use XP SP1 workstations in an NT4 domain.
Using an NT policy file (.POL) the users' home directory ("My Documents")
is set to "X:\" which is a mapped network drive on the NT4 PDC (the logon
script maps drive X:).

PROBLEM: when logging on as a domain user for the first time, Windows sets
the home directory (X:\) to read-only. This happens just after the logon
script has finished. Windows also create a "X:\My Music" folder which is also
set to read-only.
As a result, XP users can't add files to their own home directories.
(the problem does NOT occur on our old NT4 workstations in the same domain)

When removing the read-only attribute (ATTRIB -R X:\) and logging in again
on the same pc, then Windows leaves the directories as is.

For test purposes I temporarily pointed the home directory to a local hard
disk on the pc (D:\...) and the same thing happened: after first logon the
home directory on D:\ was set to read-only. So it does NOT seem to be a
problem on the PDC.

Is it possible te ask XP to NOT set that read-only attribute at logon?
 
Never mind, I think I've found a solution on page
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=256614

Apparently XP ABUSES THE READ-ONLY ATTRIBUTE to mark a folder as
"Customized"!!?
Not a very elegant solution, IMHO. It seems someone at MS just decided one
day "Oh well, that read-only attribute? Nobody uses that anyway, so let's
just say that from now one 'read-only' actually means 'customized'". |-{
 
Roel said:
Never mind, I think I've found a solution on page
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=256614

Apparently XP ABUSES THE READ-ONLY ATTRIBUTE to mark a folder as
"Customized"!!?
Not a very elegant solution, IMHO. It seems someone at MS just decided one
day "Oh well, that read-only attribute? Nobody uses that anyway, so let's
just say that from now one 'read-only' actually means 'customized'". |-{
Click to expand...


It doesn't (or shouldn't) prevent you from adding files to the folder
though...
 
It doesn't (or shouldn't) prevent you from adding files to the folder
though...
Click to expand...

Maybe not on a 'real' NT4 server, but I should have mentioned our PDC is
actually an AS/U PDC (Advanced Server for Unix) running on an HP-UX server.
HP's AS/U interprets the read-only attribute to actual "read-only" access
permissions on the directory (unix permissions: dr-xr-xr-x), which do not
allow adding files to it.
So apparently HP's AS/U isn't 100% 'NT4 compatible' (altough it was sold as
such), but the fact remains that MS simply decided to change the
signification of the read-only attribute.
 
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