"Access Denied" for Home Directories

[Guest NetGoofy]

Not sure which Group to post this.

 

All network users "Home Directories" are configured in AD under the Profile

Tab

H: - \\servername\users\%username%

 

I have a few (2 to 4) users that receive an "Access Denied" message when

they attempt to open thier (H:) drive. This doesn't happen all the time - it

is very spartic.

 

All I do to correct the issue is disconnect the (H:) drive and re-map it and

unchecking the "connect at login" option - because I know it will reconnect

because of thier profile settings when they login - and it does.

 

They don't have to reboot/logout-login or anything of that nature. By just

being able to re-map the drive tells me that thier authentication is ok.

Someone suggested it was LAN Traffic Bottleneck possible issue - however; we

have a gigabit backbone (clients are 100) but only have 40 users, all on

cisco equipment, so i really don't see that being the issue.

 

Any suggestion would be much appreciated. This is not a big issue because I

can simply re-map them - but it is aggrivating to not know what is causing

this just for a few users. I have even gone so far as to replace one

particular user - but it still happens to her every once in a while.

[Guest Olaf Engelke [MVP]]

Re: "Access Denied" for Home Directories

 

Hello,

NetGoofy wrote:

> All network users "Home Directories" are configured in AD under the

> Profile Tab

> H: - \\servername\users\%username%

>

> I have a few (2 to 4) users that receive an "Access Denied" message

> when they attempt to open thier (H:) drive. This doesn't happen all

> the time - it is very spartic.

do you see related entries in event log on client and server for this or

around this?

> All I do to correct the issue is disconnect the (H:) drive and re-map

> it and unchecking the "connect at login" option - because I know it

> will reconnect because of thier profile settings when they login -

> and it does.

 

As workaround put a little cmd file on their desktop containing:

@echo off

net use h: /delete

net use h: \\server\users\%username%

 

Best greetings from Germany

Olaf

[Guest NetGoofy]

Re: "Access Denied" for Home Directories

 

Yes, all good - but still just curious what is "really" going on - thinking

it may be a bigger issue than appears on the surface.

 

"Olaf Engelke [MVP]" wrote:

> Hello,

> NetGoofy wrote:

> > All network users "Home Directories" are configured in AD under the

> > Profile Tab

> > H: - \\servername\users\%username%

> >

> > I have a few (2 to 4) users that receive an "Access Denied" message

> > when they attempt to open thier (H:) drive. This doesn't happen all

> > the time - it is very spartic.

> do you see related entries in event log on client and server for this or

> around this?

>

> > All I do to correct the issue is disconnect the (H:) drive and re-map

> > it and unchecking the "connect at login" option - because I know it

> > will reconnect because of thier profile settings when they login -

> > and it does.

>

> As workaround put a little cmd file on their desktop containing:

> @echo off

> net use h: /delete

> net use h: \\server\users\%username%

>

> Best greetings from Germany

> Olaf

>

>