Error Creating Home Drives

[d1onysus]

Hoping somebody has an answer for this one...
Some users I Create their home drives in AD without a hitch...
But certain users when I create the home drive I get this error:

The home folder could not be created because:There is a time difference between the client and server

For those users that get that error message, instead of the home drive mapping to \\servername\Home\%Username%...it gives them a mapping to \\servername\Home, and then they can browse to their Home drive.

The users are all using either 2K or XP and both have either worked fine or had the same issue.

 

[ReddLefty]

Run the following command on the client computer:

net time \\dc1 /set /y

where \\DC1 is the name of your Time Server (Primary DC).

I added it to the logon script. Once all the computers are synchronized, the command is no longer needed, but I leave it there anyways.

 

[d1onysus]

I was still having a similar problem with the Home drives and the mapping going to the root instead of the users drive. I was using the home drive option under the users profile tab. I disabled that option, and
instead I tried using the following in the login script:

if "%username%"=="" set LS_NoName=TRUE
if "%username%"=="" goto skipI
net use H: \\SERVERNAME\HOME\%username%

That seemed to do the trick...although I'm still testing it.
BTW...I noticed on the test PC's it helps to disconnect the drive mapping and reboot before attempting to log back in again.

 

[Jpoandl]

The process of creating Home drives should be all that complicated:

1) Create a Users directory on a file server: f:\Users

2) Share this out as "Users" Give EVERYONE CHANGE and Administrators FULL CONTROL on the share

3) Set the NTFS to EVERYONE - LIST and ADMINISTRATORS - FULL CONTROL. (The permissions will vary from organization to org.)

4)Go into 2K Users and Computers and open a profile. Under HOME pick a DRIVE LETTER and specify the path. For example, if the USERS share was on a server called FILESERVER, I would enter this: H: \\fileserver\users\%username%

Login as the user....

This only works for NT based machines (2K,XP,NT) 9x clients need a direct mapping to a share..

--hope this helps..

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

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