"Documents" folders on fileserver

We have a Windows 2008 clustered fileserver that is exhibiting some weird
behavior. This server is a home drive server. For some reason, when I look
at the home drives on the server, many of them simply say Documents instead
of the correct name of the folder.

For example, if all of the home drives are on the G: drive of the server,
and we have a user named Barak Obama's, then when I log on to the server,
open up My Computer, and go to the G: drive, I should see a folder labeled
bobama. Instead, I see one labeled Documents. If I open up the folder, it
does indeed contain all of his data, and if I talk to him, he will tell me
that everything looks fine from his perspective. It's just really annoying,
because when we administrators are trying to administer the server, we can't
tell what folders belong to who, because they all say Documents.

I'm thinking this has got to be some annoying view setting. Is there some
way to turn it off?

Thanks!

 

"Brion" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
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> We have a Windows 2008 clustered fileserver that is exhibiting some weird
> behavior. This server is a home drive server. For some reason, when I
> look at the home drives on the server, many of them simply say Documents
> instead of the correct name of the folder.
>
> For example, if all of the home drives are on the G: drive of the server,
> and we have a user named Barak Obama's, then when I log on to the server,
> open up My Computer, and go to the G: drive, I should see a folder labeled
> bobama. Instead, I see one labeled Documents. If I open up the folder,
> it does indeed contain all of his data, and if I talk to him, he will tell
> me that everything looks fine from his perspective. It's just really
> annoying, because when we administrators are trying to administer the
> server, we can't tell what folders belong to who, because they all say
> Documents.
>
> I'm thinking this has got to be some annoying view setting. Is there some
> way to turn it off?
>
> Thanks!<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


That's due to Vista. Read up on it below.

When you redirect the Documents folder on a Windows Vista-based computer to
a network share, the folder name unexpectedly changes back to Documents


Folder Redirection in a mixed environment XP/Vista


Profile and Folder Redirection In Windows Server 2003 (Explains the
differences between a Roaming profile and a non-roaming profile,
recommending to not use Roaming Profiles and just use Folder Redirection:


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On 09/03/09 10:37, Brion wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> I'm thinking this has got to be some annoying view setting. Is there
> some way to turn it off?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

See if there is a (hidden) desktop.ini file in the individual folders
that change the human / pretty name to "Documents".

In my opinion, you can safely get rid of these desktop.ini files in
these types of folders.

There /may/ be a setting (personalized folders?) that will enable /
disable this, but I am not sure.



Grant. . . .

 

OK, thanks guys for the tips!


"Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net> wrote in message
news:h7p30v$et8$2@tranq7.tranquility.net...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> On 09/03/09 10:37, Brion wrote:<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> I'm thinking this has got to be some annoying view setting. Is there
>> some way to turn it off?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> See if there is a (hidden) desktop.ini file in the individual folders that
> change the human / pretty name to "Documents".
>
> In my opinion, you can safely get rid of these desktop.ini files in these
> types of folders.
>
> There /may/ be a setting (personalized folders?) that will enable /
> disable this, but I am not sure.
>
>
>
> Grant. . . . <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

"Brion" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
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> OK, thanks guys for the tips!<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


You are welcome!