Home drive not mapping after XP SP 3 update

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Hi,

We recently updated a number of our office PCs with the windows xp
service pack 3 update, since the update a number of users are having
issue with the mapping for there active directory home folder. The
user normally has a H drive that is mapped to their own share.

We are running a windows 2003 domain controller and when the user logs
in it doesn't map the H drive. There are no errors reported in the
event viewer and when the user logs in to a SP2 machine there home
drive maps fine. we also have a log in script to map a number of other
drives, this is working fine regardless of which service pack is
installed. As a test on one of the PCs I rolled back the update using
system restore and that machine now maps drives fine.

Anyone had any similar problems as this is causing us a massive
problem.

Thanks in advance
 
Re: Home drive not mapping after XP SP 3 update

>We recently updated a number of our office PCs with the windows xp
>service pack 3 update, since the update a number of users are having
>issue with the mapping for there active directory home folder. The
>user normally has a H drive that is mapped to their own share.
>
>We are running a windows 2003 domain controller and when the user logs
>in it doesn't map the H drive. There are no errors reported in the
>event viewer and when the user logs in to a SP2 machine there home
>drive maps fine. we also have a log in script to map a number of other
>drives, this is working fine regardless of which service pack is
>installed. As a test on one of the PCs I rolled back the update using
>system restore and that machine now maps drives fine.
>
>Anyone had any similar problems as this is causing us a massive
>problem.
>
>Thanks in advance

Did you take a peek at this KB article?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957009/

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Re: Home drive not mapping after XP SP 3 update

I managed to get to the bottom of the problem. We ended up calling
Microsoft and after a bit of troubleshooting we got to the bottom of
it. In active directory we had to change the home drive mapping from \
\servername\home$ to \\servername.company.lan\home$ (Use the FQDN).
This is an issue that only comes up after installing Windows XP SP3.

Cheers


On 11 Sep, 15:52, Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote:
> >We recently updated a number of our office PCs with the windows xp
> >service pack 3 update, since the update a number of users are having
> >issue with the mapping for there active directory home folder.  The
> >user normally has a H drive that is mapped to their own share.
>
> >We are running a windows 2003 domain controller and when the user logs
> >in it doesn't map the H drive.  There are no errors reported in the
> >event viewer and when the user logs in to a SP2 machine there home
> >drive maps fine. we also have a log in script to map a number of other
> >drives, this is working fine regardless of which service pack is
> >installed. As a test on one of the PCs I rolled back the update using
> >system restore and that machine now maps drives fine.
>
> >Anyone had any similar problems as this is causing us a massive
> >problem.
>
> >Thanks in advance
>
> Did you take a peek at this KB article?http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957009/
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Re: Home drive not mapping after XP SP 3 update

>I managed to get to the bottom of the problem. We ended up calling
>Microsoft and after a bit of troubleshooting we got to the bottom of
>it. In active directory we had to change the home drive mapping from \
>\servername\home$ to \\servername.company.lan\home$ (Use the FQDN).
>This is an issue that only comes up after installing Windows XP SP3.
>
>Cheers

Glad you got it nailed down.

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Home Drive not mapping for us as well!

Home Drive not mapping for us as well!

We have Server 2003 AD and XP SP3 machines, and randomly around, people are not getting their drives from the login scripts I have. We are using batch files for the login scripts. On friday I changed over the drive mapping in the login scripts like you suggested from: \\COMPUTERNAME\SHARE to \\COMPUTER.DOMAIN.org\SHARE

Although I hear reports of users still not getting their network drives mapped this morning. I'm running out of ideas....


What was the update that did it?
 
Home drives not mapping - solution!?

Home drives not mapping - solution!?

Hi,

We had this issue as well, initially the customer was using an old style kix32 script but we changed them to use a VB script instead.
Still they were intermittently losing their home drive mapping.

We finally pinned this down to a problem with the login script and the order of which things were run.

I'm pretty sure that normally the login script would be run then the home drive would be mapped during the login process - this seems to happen in the reverse order.
Because the login script was set to remove all drive mappings it was actually removing their home drive before they login.

We corrected this problem by changing the drive cleanup process in the login script to this: -

For i = 0 to colDrives.Count-1 Step 2
If colDrives.Item(i)<>"U:" then
objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive colDrives.Item(i),True,True
End if
Next

This removes all mapped drives EXCEPT the home drive (in our case this was mapped to U:).

You've probably found a solution by now but I wanted to post this so it helps people with similar issues.

Kind regards
Alastair
 
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