Odd issue with login script & home directory

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

I've been working on a problem for a while now and its beginning to do my head in.

We have a pretty standard setup for user logins/profiles as follows:

2 x DCs
User accounts in various OUs and members of various groups
User's home directories mapped via their AD account - to a share with a root folder and an individual user folder underneath (e.g. \\<SERVER>\HOME\<USER>)
General and department-specific shares mapped under a vbs login script, run under a GPO

Intermittently - and this can happen to anyone, on any day, with no pattern either to the server they log on to, time of day, group membership or anything else - user's home directories (which, as stated above, are set under their account settings in their AD profile) are being mapped, but only to the root folder, not the correct subfolder (e.g. \\<SERVER>\HOME\)

I suspect this is some sort of race condition, whereby the user account is not authenticated prior to the login script running, hence they can't map to specific drives. However, I can't set 'wait for network' and 'run login scripts synchronously' because, incorporated within the login script is a setting that runs our auditing software (detecting what is installed, machine specifics etc) and that takes three minutes or so to complete. As you can probably imagine, I can't have users waiting three minutes to log on!

I've been reading this forum post which details exactly the same issue I am having, but haven't been able to come up with a fix for it yet. Anybody else come acrss something similar?

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Hi Zeb,

We have not had this issue yet, however, it would be good to know what the cause of this is/was.

 

Hi,

I had a similar problem start to crop up before. I fixed it by just putting the home folder information into the log in script

Dim objNetwork
Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

strUsername = objNetwork.Username

'Mapping User Directory

objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "H:", "\\*****\Users\" & strUsername, True

Set objNetwork = Nothing

WScript.Quit

^ rather chopped down version of my logon script.

 

Yes, that's what I'm considering Hip. Only problem is it means going through and stripping all the old user home directories out of the accounts in AD - not a partiuclarly onerous task in my lab, but a pain in the arris with 700-odd user accounts to wade through

Maybe I can script it...