Guest Germano Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Hello. I´m looking for a way, of my users logon in three different locations (each one with it´s own DC), getting the home folder setting, from the logonserver of that DC. For example: DC1 DC2 DC3 \\DC1\BigShare\users\user1 \\DC2\BigShare\users\user1 \\DC3\BigShare\users\user1 Only the DC part i need that change. For instance, let´s say one user move from DC1 to DC2, he doesn´t need to change anything, nor me :) I tried to setup DFS... but even using DFS-R (From W2K3 R2), it´s really slowdown the access. When i changed to \\DC1, it returned to the normal speed. I still use logonscripts, so that´s i way, i thought... but searching throught the web, i checked that 2k3 doesn´t support anymore to set home folder throught a .bat or vbs, that´s true? My idea was to use: net use U: %logonserver%\BigShare\users\user1 but this, maps the drive, but dont make it a home folder. If i type SET, it shows the Home drive as C:\Documents and Settings\user1... and that´s different of when u set throught AD. Any ideas of how i could solve this? All the ideas will be welcome, as i´m getting crazy with this :) P.S.: Things that i already tried: - Set a fake name in the DC in Hosts pointingto the own DC (i think that the secutrity of W2K3 block the access to fake servers; - Create a environment variable %TSMAN%; - Set %logonserver% in Home Folder (It just works for TS Profile Path, but i don´t use profiles, nor local nor remote); - Use dsmod user (my tests were poor); The Most Kind Regards, Germano.
Guest Jeff Pitsch Posted July 31, 2008 Posted July 31, 2008 Re: Same path to user home folder except by logon server (3 sites/DCs) Group Policy can set the user home directory. It's a machine setting so it will affect the users when they login to that particular server. You setup 3 different GPO's, each one filtered to it's own server or have each server/group of servers in their own OU. Apply GPO and BAM, you have your solution. Jeff Pitsch Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services "Germano" <Germano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2901F762-2162-4798-B3C2-6F95C2ACB7B0@microsoft.com... > Hello. > > I´m looking for a way, of my users logon in three different locations > (each one with it´s own DC), getting the home folder setting, from the > logonserver of that DC. For example: > > DC1 > DC2 > DC3 > > \\DC1\BigShare\users\user1 > \\DC2\BigShare\users\user1 > \\DC3\BigShare\users\user1 > > Only the DC part i need that change. For instance, let´s say one user move > from DC1 to DC2, he doesn´t need to change anything, nor me :) > > I tried to setup DFS... but even using DFS-R (From W2K3 R2), it´s really > slowdown the access. When i changed to \\DC1, it returned to the normal > speed. > > I still use logonscripts, so that´s i way, i thought... but searching > throught the web, i checked that 2k3 doesn´t support anymore to set home > folder throught a .bat or vbs, that´s true? > > My idea was to use: > > net use U: %logonserver%\BigShare\users\user1 > > but this, maps the drive, but dont make it a home folder. If i type SET, > it > shows the Home drive as C:\Documents and Settings\user1... and that´s > different of when u set throught AD. > > Any ideas of how i could solve this? All the ideas will be welcome, as i´m > getting crazy with this :) > > P.S.: Things that i already tried: > > - Set a fake name in the DC in Hosts pointingto the own DC (i think that > the > secutrity of W2K3 block the access to fake servers; > - Create a environment variable %TSMAN%; > - Set %logonserver% in Home Folder (It just works for TS Profile Path, but > i > don´t use profiles, nor local nor remote); > - Use dsmod user (my tests were poor); > > The Most Kind Regards, > > Germano.
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted July 31, 2008 Posted July 31, 2008 Re: Same path to user home folder except by logon server (3 sites/DCs) Germano <Germano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I´m looking for a way, of my users logon in three different > locations (each one with it´s own DC), getting the home folder > setting, from the logonserver of that DC. For example: > > DC1 > DC2 > DC3 > > \\DC1\BigShare\users\user1 > \\DC2\BigShare\users\user1 > \\DC3\BigShare\users\user1 > > Only the DC part i need that change. For instance, let´s say one user > move from DC1 to DC2, he doesn´t need to change anything, nor me :) > > I tried to setup DFS... but even using DFS-R (From W2K3 R2), it´s > really slowdown the access. When i changed to \\DC1, it returned to > the normal speed. > > I still use logonscripts, so that´s i way, i thought... but searching > throught the web, i checked that 2k3 doesn´t support anymore to set > home folder throught a .bat or vbs, that´s true? > > My idea was to use: > > net use U: %logonserver%\BigShare\users\user1 > > but this, maps the drive, but dont make it a home folder. If i type > SET, it shows the Home drive as C:\Documents and Settings\user1... > and that´s different of when u set throught AD. > > Any ideas of how i could solve this? All the ideas will be welcome, > as i´m getting crazy with this :) > > P.S.: Things that i already tried: > > - Set a fake name in the DC in Hosts pointingto the own DC (i think > that the secutrity of W2K3 block the access to fake servers; > - Create a environment variable %TSMAN%; > - Set %logonserver% in Home Folder (It just works for TS Profile > Path, but i don´t use profiles, nor local nor remote); > - Use dsmod user (my tests were poor); > > The Most Kind Regards, > > Germano. DFS may help you out here. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx That said, why do you think you need a home directory? You don't - you can use folder redirection for my documents, desktop, application data, and even the start menu (although I don't use the latter). Home directories are kind of archaic at this point.
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