[Samba] Redirected Folders not working for Desktop

[Mark Foley]

Well, I've just added another directory to not make the redirected folders a the
root. And, Favorites and Documents do work.

Goog suggestion to check the Windows event viewer. I'll do that and get back
with what I find.

Thanks, --Mark

-----Original Message-----
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> From: James <lingpanda101 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 08:14:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Redirected Folders not working for Desktop
>
> Mark,
>
>     I typically setup redirected folders as such
>
> \\mail.hprs.local\Users\%username%
>
> I would look at the windows event viewer logs and see what it says when
> it attempts to apply the GPO.
>
> -- 
> -James
>
> On 8/31/2015 10:22 PM, Mark Foley wrote:
> > I have a problem I've not been able to figure out.  I'm using Samba4 as the
> > office AD/DC.  I've set up the Redirected Folders policy to redirect Desktop,
> > Favorites and Documents to \\mail.hprs.local.  I set this up months ago and it
> > works great for Documents and Favorites, but Desktop is not redirected (no Desktop):
> >
> > $ ls -l /redirectedFolders/Users/thisuser/
> > total 16
> > drwxrwx---+ 10 thisuser users 4096 2015-08-25 13:08 Favorites/
> > drwxrwx---+ 19 thisuser users 4096 2015-08-26 14:28 My\ Documents/
> >
> > Policy settings using RSAT for these 3 entities are exactly the same: "Basic -
> > Redirect everyone's folder the the same location"; settings: "Move the contents
> > of Desktop to the new location", Also apply redirect policy to ...  Windows XP
> > ..."; "Redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location when policy is
> > removed". 
> >
> > Here's a link to the RSAT/GPO screenshot: http://www.novatec-inc.com/pub/redirectedFoldersPolicy,Desktop.jpg
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> >