Windows Server - Drive map problem SBS 2008 and Vista

Asked By Chris

21-Mar-09 02:16 AM

Hi

I have 2 shared drives mapped using Group Policy Preference.  The GP
is applied to the whole domain.

This works fine on all our XP machines.

I have now setup a Vista (SP1) client, installed the windowsupdate for
group policy extension.

Things like printers from group policy are applied fine.

But the drive maps are ignored.

I can create them manually.  But they do not appear automatically from
group policy preferences.

I have run out of ideas what could be wrong.

Any suggestions please?

Many thanks
Chris

19-Mar-09 06:07 PM

I did that on the Vista machine, no difference.

I have even formatted the disk and re-installed Vista just incase there was
something in the existing setup which was causing the problem.

I will try the command on the server tomorrow to see if it makes any
difference.

Thanks for the suggestion.


have you run gpupdate /force on server and Vista machines?

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Hi

I have 2 shared drives mapped using Group Policy Preference.  The GP
is applied to the whole domain.

This works fine on all our XP machines.

I have now setup a Vista (SP1) client, installed the windowsupdate for
group policy extension.

Things like printers from group policy are applied fine.

But the drive maps are ignored.

I can create them manually.  But they do not appear automatically from
group policy preferences.

I have run out of ideas what could be wrong.

Any suggestions please?

Many thanks
Chris