I am logged in as administrator on a Server2008R2 machine via remote desktop. I do not have physical access to the server. I'm setting up user accounts that will also have remote desktop services access. I have made them members of the Remote Desktop Group. When setting the Remote Desktop Services Properties I enter (on the "Remote Desktop Services Profile" tab) \\servername\sharename\username as the Profile Path under Remote Desktop Services User Profile and want to connect Q (from the dropdown) to \\servername\sharename\username\documents under Remote Desktop Services Home Folder.
When I apply the settings above I get a dialog stating "The {specified user} home folder was not created because you do not have create access on the server. The user account has been updated with the home folder value but you must create the directory manually after obtaining the required access rights." This error originally would not even apply the setting until I appled a patch that I thought would fix it (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545735). Now at least the setting can be saved.
The two odd things are that I'm logged in as admin with full rights to the server and that I get the error even after the folder has been created. I can log in as the new user and manually map the desired drive. I just cannot get it to happen using the user properties. This method has worked for us for two years on a 2k8 server that this one has just replaced so I know this should work now. I cannot compare settings to the old server because the RAID1 array melted down on it last week.
I tried setting this up using the group policies but that didn't work. I also tried creating a logon script with the "net use Q: \\server\share\user\documents" command but cannot get that to work either. I placed the "mapQ.bat" batch file in the users folder, set the User Profile Path to C:\users\username and the logon script to ..\mapQ.bat. I don't think the logon script is being seen at all. Isn't the Profile tab on the user properties for local access only?
The intention is to have the Q drive mapped to the users' documents folder when they log in using RDP so the app being served can use that folder to place documents created into for later retrieval. I understand there may be other methods to accomplish this but I'd appreciate feedback germane to this particular error instead of trying to run down another path. I will open another thread to discuss alternative methods.
I cannot find any information regarding this particular error. Has anyone had this happen and how have you overcome it?