re: Server 2003 & Vista Premium locking profiles folders - Help!
Friday, April 4, 2008 at 5:46 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jazzman
(4124 messages posted)
If your server is a domain controller, then Vista Home premium cannot join a domain.
It sounds from your description however, that the server is a stand alone workgroup
server since you say they have mapped drives.
1. Does each "user" have a user account on the server?
In a workgroup configuration, each user must have an individual account on the server
in order to access files. then you give the user account on the server permissions
to their my documents. Then they will likely have to enter their username and password
to access it.
2. You said the drives are "automatically mapped". How are they automatically mapped?
did you map them from each individual workstation?
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On Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 10:15 pm, Mike wrote:
>Vista Premium and Server 2003. We have all of the users "My Documents" automatically
>mapped to a Users folder so the server can backup docs. A typical path may be
\\server03\users\joe\my
>documents. But, either on the Vista pc or on the server under Users, if you try
>to get into the "My Documents" folder, it says it is locked, etc. etc. I've tried
>right clicking and taking over permissions with admin rights, no luck, but not even
>workstations can get into their own docs folder, I am forced to create a new share
>and use that folder instead. I think Vista Prem is locking for folders and maybe
>Server 03 too, but not sure how to fix.
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