Folder Redirection - EventID 112
Roman at dot
I have a niggling issue that I'm unable to resolve. Users have their
Application Data, Desktop and My Documents redirected to the server under
GPO. I'm not sure if this issue is GPO related or legacy from a server
migration. Whenever a user logs onto the Win 2k3 R2 Server the following two
entries appear in the Event Viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Folder Redirection
Event Category: None
Event ID: 112
Date: 4/01/2008
Time: 1:09:34 PM
User: HOMENET\Roman
Computer: HOMENETSVR
Description:
Failed to perform redirection of folder Application Data. The files for the
redirected folder could not be moved to the new location. The folder is
configured to be redirected to <\\HomeNetSvr\Users\%USERNAME%\Application
Data>. Files were being moved from <C:\Documents and
Settings\Roman\Application Data> to <\\HomeNetSvr\Users\Roman\Application
Data>. The following error occurred while copying <C:\Documents and
Settings\Roman\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns> to
<\\HomeNetSvr\Users\Roman\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns>:
Access is denied.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Followed immediately by
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1085
Date: 4/01/2008
Time: 1:09:34 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: HOMENETSVR
Description:
The Group Policy client-side extension Folder Redirection failed to execute.
Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
1. The Documents and Settings folder permissions on the Server's C:\ appear
to have the correct permissions. (Why are files replicated here as well as
the redirected folder?)
2. The specified filename being reported Access is Denied varies between
users
3. This issue has been apparent since a server rebuild where the OS was
reinstalled - System State backups were unsuccessful. Consequently all SIDs
changed. Fortunately user data was backed up separately which was copied back
onto the server. User data included redirected folder contents and profiles
(I suspect this is the real issue).
Any guidance is warmly accepted.
Roman at dot
from these errors; users do not receive Profile error dialogues nor are there
any apparent issues with their roaming profiles.
Florian Frommherz [MVP]
Roman schrieb:
> I should also add that there does not appear to be any complications arrising
> from these errors; users do not receive Profile error dialogues nor are there
> any apparent issues with their roaming profiles.
What permissions are on the share and what NTFS permissions are on each
user's folder? How did you proceed with the backup? This is likely to be
a permission issue. Did you restore the user profiles on the rebuilt
server with the same name?
cheers,
Florian
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Roman at dot
Thank you for the prompt reply. The Shares are as follows:
D:\Users\<username>\Application Data
\Desktop
\My Documents
The Root folder "Users" is shared with FC to Everyone. I logged on as each
user (only 5) to have Windows create <username>\<folder name> through GPO
with default permissions. I then file copied the contents of each user's
redirected folder from a backup which was created by a simple automated file
copy.
The NTFS permissions on each <username> are: Administrators FC, inherited;
<username> Special, inherited, Effective Permissions FC; System FC inherited;
and Users, Read & Execute, List Folder Contents and Read all inherited, and
Special inherited. These NTFS permissions are propagated down the tree.
As mentioned above the NTBackup failed to restore however I had a file copy
backup of all user data, including redirected folders, as a fail safe. The
structure of the redirected folders does not mimic the structure before the
rebuild.
Cheers,