Offline Home Drives mapped using Active Directory

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Chris Tilley

Hi,

We had setup laptop users with home drives set in the user
properties in Active directory. All using win2k pro.

What we did was put the home drive to
\\theirlaptopname\Data$ So that it mapped what looked
like a drive in My computer. The reason for this is that
we had blocked C: using group policy so that they could
not delve into their system files and basically wreck
things! I found that this worked well, and gave a lot of
other benefits which i will not go into now.
Unfortunately, this appears to be stopping working.

What happens is when they disconnect from the network,
their H: drive is then unavailable. If they'd created a
desktop shortcut to their home drive then that had
reverted to a shortcut to c:\data and still worked, but
the actual drive in my computer was inaccessible. Anyone
got any ideas? I tried offline files, but it simply
doesn't do the job i want it to.

If anyone has other suggestions, i'd be more than happy to
listen!
 
have you tried using \\localhost\Data$? It would then be
using the local loopback address instead of trying to
resolve the machine name through DNS/WINS.
 
Hi Fay,

yeah i did try that on the machine using a local startup
script, but it still cannot see it. I don't think the
network actually starts until you are plugged into the LAN
so it won't find it. Thanks for suggestion tho!

Chris
 
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