Vista - Problems with Folder Redirection with Windows Vista

We use the group policy to redirect the users home folder (\\server
\home\%username%) and when a user logs on from a Vista machine it is
renaming their %username% folder to documents. This obviously poses a
problem since I can't have a home directory folder where all of the
folder names are documents. Does anyone know how to get around this
or why it happens? Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Mark B.

Hi Mark

I have exactly the same issue. The path behind the documents folders is
always correct. But it is not administrable to check the path for each
folder, if you search a users home folder.

regards
Chris

"benintendi.1@gmail.com" wrote:

> We use the group policy to redirect the users home folder (\\server
> \home\%username%) and when a user logs on from a Vista machine it is
> renaming their %username% folder to documents. This obviously poses a
> problem since I can't have a home directory folder where all of the
> folder names are documents. Does anyone know how to get around this
> or why it happens? Any information would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark B.
>
>

On May 23, 9:43 am, benintend...@gmail.com wrote:
> We use the group policy to redirect the users home folder (\\server
> \home\%username%) and when a user logs on from aVistamachine it is
> renaming their %username% folder todocuments. This obviously poses a
> problem since I can't have a home directory folder where all of the
> folder names aredocuments. Does anyone know how to get around this
> or why it happens? Any information would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark B.

We, too, are having the same problem. Have you found a solution yet?
Thanks,
Teri

I was seeing the same thing, and the only way I could get around it
was to use: \\SERVER\Home\%USERNAME%\documents
If the docs folder doesn't exist in the home share, it will create
one.
-Shawn