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| White Castles 2002-06-22, 6:35 pm |
| When users log on to the domain, occasionally there home directory (which
is
mapped as there H: drive) will contain a folder called Start Me instead of
Start Menu.
The user will then call the helpdesk complaining because there Start >
Program Menu
is empty. If I mapped the users H: drive from my computer, sure enough
there's that
Start Me folder again. I have three choices to fix the problem
1) have the user goto Shutdown and logon as different user
2) map the users H: drive and delete the Start Me folder, have user reboot
the pc
3) copy the contents from Start Menu to Start Me folder
Man, if anyone can solve this problem I will forever praise user name.
This problem
has plaque my company for several years but it wasn't a big enough problem
to worry about.
We are migrating everything to 2000 and I would like to clean up some of
this mess before hand.
DC's running NT Server 4.0
DNS Server's running 2000
Work Stations running Win95B
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| Have you tried "START MENU" (with quotes) instead of StartM~1?
What exactly is H supposed to be mapped to?
I gather you are using NT4 Roaming Profiles for Win9x users
"White Castles" <me@home.com> wrote in message =
news:Niwn8.184374$Hu6.43811902@typhoon.neo.rr.com...
> When users log on to the domain, occasionally there home directory =
(which
> is
> mapped as there H: drive) will contain a folder called Start Me =
instead of
> Start Menu.
> The user will then call the helpdesk complaining because there Start >
> Program Menu
> is empty. If I mapped the users H: drive from my computer, sure enough
> there's that
> Start Me folder again. I have three choices to fix the problem
>=20
> 1) have the user goto Shutdown and logon as different user
> 2) map the users H: drive and delete the Start Me folder, have user =
reboot
> the pc
> 3) copy the contents from Start Menu to Start Me folder
>=20
> Man, if anyone can solve this problem I will forever praise user =
name.
> This problem
> has plaque my company for several years but it wasn't a big enough =
problem
> to worry about.
> We are migrating everything to 2000 and I would like to clean up some =
of
> this mess before hand.
>=20
> DC's running NT Server 4.0
> DNS Server's running 2000
> Work Stations running Win95B
>=20
>=20
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| Danny Costa 2002-06-22, 6:35 pm |
| Sounds like it only showing 8.3 style names, i.e DOS conventions
"White Castles" <me@home.com> wrote in message
news:Niwn8.184374$Hu6.43811902@typhoon.neo.rr.com...
> When users log on to the domain, occasionally there home directory (which
> is
> mapped as there H: drive) will contain a folder called Start Me instead of
> Start Menu.
> The user will then call the helpdesk complaining because there Start >
> Program Menu
> is empty. If I mapped the users H: drive from my computer, sure enough
> there's that
> Start Me folder again. I have three choices to fix the problem
>
> 1) have the user goto Shutdown and logon as different user
> 2) map the users H: drive and delete the Start Me folder, have user reboot
> the pc
> 3) copy the contents from Start Menu to Start Me folder
>
> Man, if anyone can solve this problem I will forever praise user name.
> This problem
> has plaque my company for several years but it wasn't a big enough problem
> to worry about.
> We are migrating everything to 2000 and I would like to clean up some of
> this mess before hand.
>
> DC's running NT Server 4.0
> DNS Server's running 2000
> Work Stations running Win95B
>
>
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| Chris Warren 2002-06-22, 6:35 pm |
| Upgrade the win95 machines to win98 (or to your planned upgrade) might help.
"Danny Costa" <dannyc@terrigal.net.au> wrote in message
news:OShk6670BHA.2740@tkmsftngp03...
> Sounds like it only showing 8.3 style names, i.e DOS conventions
>
>
> "White Castles" <me@home.com> wrote in message
> news:Niwn8.184374$Hu6.43811902@typhoon.neo.rr.com...
> > When users log on to the domain, occasionally there home directory
(which
> > is
> > mapped as there H: drive) will contain a folder called Start Me instead
of
> > Start Menu.
> > The user will then call the helpdesk complaining because there Start >
> > Program Menu
> > is empty. If I mapped the users H: drive from my computer, sure enough
> > there's that
> > Start Me folder again. I have three choices to fix the problem
> >
> > 1) have the user goto Shutdown and logon as different user
> > 2) map the users H: drive and delete the Start Me folder, have user
reboot
> > the pc
> > 3) copy the contents from Start Menu to Start Me folder
> >
> > Man, if anyone can solve this problem I will forever praise user name.
> > This problem
> > has plaque my company for several years but it wasn't a big enough
problem
> > to worry about.
> > We are migrating everything to 2000 and I would like to clean up some of
> > this mess before hand.
> >
> > DC's running NT Server 4.0
> > DNS Server's running 2000
> > Work Stations running Win95B
> >
> >
>
>
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| Robert Pieroth 2002-06-22, 6:35 pm |
| "White Castles" <me@home.com> wrote:
> When users log on to the domain, occasionally there home directory (which
> is mapped as there H: drive) will contain a folder called Start Me instead of
> Start Menu.
> I have three choices to fix the problem
>
> 1) have the user goto Shutdown and logon as different user
> 2) map the users H: drive and delete the Start Me folder, have user reboot
> the pc
> 3) copy the contents from Start Menu to Start Me folder
>
> Man, if anyone can solve this problem I will forever praise user name.
> This problem has plaque my company for several years but it wasn't
> a big enough problem to worry about. We are migrating everything to
> 2000 and I would like to clean up some of this mess before hand.
>
> DC's running NT Server 4.0
> DNS Server's running 2000
> Work Stations running Win95B
Seems to me that the clients have problems by creating long filenames.
"Start Me" is 8 characters long - old FAT16 DOS naming conventions.
Try to include pathnames in "" marks for every command to create files
or folders. Or check the configuration of the clients if there is a prevent
for creating long filenames.
--
Robert Pieroth
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