Storing Active Directory Profiles on Terastation Pro

[maclean_cherry]

   

Hi Guys,

 

Hopefully you can help me, I've struck a problem using a Terastation Pro II.

 

We want to store our active directory roaming profiles on our terastation pro II

 

I have set the TS on the Domain, it appears as a network computer and it has also downloaded all of the active directory users into itself.

 

I have created 2 share drives through the WebGUI and made sure there are no access privelages set on them.

 

I log into our Domain Controller and attempt to update a users home and profile paths to the TS, using it's network name.

 

I then get the following message:

 

"The \\buffalsonas1\users\testing11 home folder was not created because you do not have create access on the server. The user account has been updated with the new home folder value but you must create the directory manually after obtaining the required access rights."

 

What confuses me is that I can fileshare to \\buffalonas1\users\ from the domain controller and create a file so this should mean that I have the required privelages. It also creates a folder in users, but it is empty.

 

Any ideas? I'm almost bald from pulling my hair out..

 

 

Message Edited by maclean_cherry on 07-27-2009 01:38 AM

[PCPiranha]

I'm sorry I am unfamiliar with the term "profiles" when it comes to active directory.  Are you speaking of using the active directory access restrictions?  You said that the unit pulled the users, thats is what the unit is meant to do.  You cannot use active directory access restrictions.

[maclean_cherry]

   

We use active directory to enable 'roaming profiles'

 

Roaming profiles means that a user can login on any computer on the network and it loads their profile from a directory on the domain. The advantage of this is that a user has access to all of their files on any computer on our domain.

 

You set the users profile directory by using the users and computers section of Active Directory. When you create a user you then right click them and select properties and then select the profile tab. We are trying to set their home foler and profile directory as the Buffalo device

[Colin137]

The domain controller is probably trying to set certain access restrictions on the folder it creates... as the access restrictions cannot be set by another system at all, and can only be set on root-level shares, this won't work.

 

Try creating the folder first, then pointing the user's profile path to it. Not sure it that will work, but it's worth a shot. You may need to create individual shares for users if it needs access restrictions set.

Message Edited by Colin137 on 07-27-2009 10:34 PM

[maclean_cherry]

   

Thanks for the advice. I'll give that a go and will update the thread with results.

 

Cheers,

 

Maclean