Comments on: Map Windows My Documents Folder to Network Drive

By: DirkV

DirkV — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:37:10 +0000

You can do this for dozens of users with “folder redirection”. Google the expression for a good list of pages with some detailed how-to steps.

By: TimB

TimB — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:18:29 +0000

The login script works, but you need to kill and reload explorer.exe for the chnages to take effect…

Using active directory as suggested does NOT map the my documnets to the network drive, it does map it to the share…

When they open “My Docs” they will see “\\server\share\username\my folder”

We would like to see “N:My folder”

Does anyone please know a way around this in AD preferably?

By: Alain Quarré

Alain Quarré — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:38:59 +0000

Maybe too late, but
I wrote a script to move all user’s folder before account activation.
You can read in english her, but this post is incomplete:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/117308-user-folders-moving-user-folders-modular-script.html#post1008268

Or read this thread in french:
http://www.forum-seven.com/forum/topic4073.html

Test it and give your comment.

Alain Quarré

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:47:05 +0000

I also want to redirect my Document folder to another drive. OS-WindowsSvr 2003 sp2, AD, DNS installed. i have to run the domain users from thin client on the same server. so the data will reside on same server, but at different location rather then default (C:\…). i want that user will login from thinclint and it will have access to only its home folder at E drive, no other drive and my comp all will be visible to him… please help…

By: XxBladesxX

XxBladesxX — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:37:25 +0000

I’m also having this issue, I’m running win server 2003 r2 with network OS that include, win 2k, XP, and Vista. I need to add a script that auto creates a “My Documents” folder on the server for every user, and only gives them access to it(other then admins)… any suggestions would be very appreciated

By: terry short

terry short — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:23:37 +0000

Ken darby how did you redirect my document to a network drive h: usng a login script, I need to do this

By: Ken Darby

Ken Darby — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:50 +0000

I have figured out how to redirect the My Documents to a network drive H:\ using the login script. This works well to now have all files saved to My Documents not saved locally, but redirected to a network share. We are doing this for ~9,000 Windows XP SP3 client machines. An interesting consequence is that Desktop Search now also goes out to the network share when indexing the files in My Documents. This causes issues with network bandwidth when many of the user’s machines run indexing.

Anyone else run into this network issue, and if so how did you get around it?

Thank you for any help!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:31:53 +0000

I agree with William – This is setup in the GPOE. The way we did it was setup for DOMAIN USERS group – this way everyone gets it and you don’t have to reconcile with your user list to make sure you’ve added everyone. If you have a repository of user/passwords go to each machine over the weekend and log them out/in.
If your business is gigantic, send out emails and have people log out/in at intervals during the day based on last names alphabetically. This way everyone should be able to get it done without too much network interruption.

so Monday 8:00A Last names starting with A
Monday 8:30A Last names starting with B

and so on.

By: salome undac

salome undac — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:21:40 +0000

I have a collection of movies located in the drive J of my computer. I shared it in the local network. Sad to say that only ten users are allowed to brows in the said movies. I used WindowsXp. Please help. Thank you.

By: William Pate

William Pate — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:42:50 +0000

You can accomplish this with folder redirection through Group Policy. If you are using Active Directory 2003 with WIN XP or Vista clients then load Group Policy Object Editor on one of your domain controllers. Create a new group policy and under User Configuration you will find a folder called WIndows Settings. Under Windows Settings there is a folder called Folder Redirection right click on this folder and select properties. At this point you are going to need a server share to point the my documents folder to. I also recommend redirecting the Desktop. If you right click on my documents and go to properties you can chooose “Basic – Redirect everyone’s folder to the same location”. Under Target folder location I choose Create a folder for each user under the root path. Under root path type in the path to your share ex. \\server\share
Under the settings tab I recommend making sure Grant the user exclusive rights to my documents is checked and Move the contents of my documents folder to the new location is checked. You MUST be careful though because once you apply this policy to users it could take a significant amount of time when they go to login. You will get the applying computer settings screen for a long time sometimes and basically what is happening is the server is copying the users my documents folder to the server. You probably want to pick someone you know well to try this out on at first. Then I suggest moving the users over to the new policy one at a time…and schedule the move with them for the end of the day. Have them logoff then move their user account into the new OU with the policy and have them log back in. This way if it takes an hour for their my documents to copy it will do it while they are at home….good luck.