"Access Denied" for Home Directories

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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.
 
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
 
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
>
>
 
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