[THIN] Re: Redirecting My Documents

  • From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:53:03 -0500

one thing you can so is use a dns alias at each location to point to the
file server.  That way, "FileServer" always points to that locations file
server and you have one script to keep up with instead of a bunch.  Sam
ehting works with printer names and just about anything else.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David <dmauri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeff Bolton escribió:
>
>>
>> Hello List….
>>
>> We have our user's "My Documents" folder mapped to an "H:" drive which is
>> located on one of our file servers. Each branch office has a file server and
>> the user's home drive is located on the file server in that office. Our
>> PS4.5 farm is located centrally at our corporate office.
>>
>> As each site has a different file server, the path to the home directory
>> changes depending on which office the user is from, ie: the mapping would
>> look something like:
>>
>> _\\site_fileserver\users\username$_
>> <file://%5C%5Csite_fileserver%5Cusers%5Cusername$>
>>
>>
>> When users launch applications published from the Citrix farm, it seems to
>> be somewhat random as to whether the "My Documents" folder that they see is
>> located on the file server as it should be (which is mapped via the domain
>> login script), or locally on one of the Citrix servers. This seems to be
>> worse with MS Office applications, but it happens with other applications as
>> well.
>>
>> How can I force the "My Documents" folder to always point at the users
>> home directory, regardless of which application they are running and which
>> branch office they are coming from?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> /Jeff B. Bolton/
>> Lead System Administrator
>> Biovail Corporation
>>
>>
>>  have you set up chkroot script and added the drive unit letter as your
> default home drive?
> This will be consistent for all users.
>
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