Users (Vista) Documents Folders

[Guest Peter Morgan]

Under Windows XP using Roaming Profiles and Folder redirection for the My

Documents folders, Windows creates a folder for each user under the specified

share on the server. This folder, together with the appropriate security

settings, was simply designated the users' name as per the %username%

variable. The result of which was a shared network folder with multiple

user's folders inside. As an administrator I could easily navigate to a

user's redirected My Documents folder on this share and view/modify files as

required.

 

Windows Vista seems to do something a little different; as before it creates

the relevant folder inside the share, but (somehow) they are all simply

called 'Documents' - you cannot tell them apart without going into the

Security tab of the Properties page and seeing which user the folder actually

belongs to!

 

The question is, how can I get Vista to propely name these folders, and also

how can multiple folders with the same name exist in the same folder!?

 

Just to add to the confusion I created a shortcut to one of the folders and

put it on another user's Desktop. Nothing about the shortcut suggests that it

would take you to the correct folder on the share, but it does! This tells me

that some element of Windows or NTFS 'knows' which folder is which and that

this non-unique naming is being done on some other display-only level.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated :)