Vista Clients on Server 2003 Domain

[colinrharris]

I run a W2003 single server Domain with,up till now only XP Clients. I now have a Vista machine and am having difficulties with the following issues:

1. Login Script (mainly drive mappings) will not run.
I am able to logon from the Vista computer and I am able to browse the network and access any files that would normally be available to the logged on user. If I run the logon script after bootup. The drives are still not mapped but I do get the logon script generated welcome message.

2. The "home" folder specified in the user account profile does not appear.

3. Unable to install printers shared on another computer.
When I try to add a printer, no shared printers are listed.

Is there something else that has to be done to the server to enable Vista clients to work as expected?

Thanks.

 

[Stevehewitt]

Try running the logon script directly from the command prompt in Vista and see what the errors are.

I suspect that the above will assist in the second issue you have.

The printer issue sounds a bit weird!

Is the machine a member of the domain? It's DNS is all correct? Anything worth noting in the event logs. I've got 4 machine running Vista as a trial and haven't had a single issue so far. Didn't need to do anything special at all.

I'd suggest also post this in the Vista forum!

Ta,




Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

 

[mmendes]

I have not done this yet, so I do not have any specific information. But, I have been told by a Microsoft rep that you first have to run a version of forest prep and/or domain prep on your domain before you can add any Vista stations to it.