Folder Redirection won’t load on Windows 7 Machine in Windows 2008 R2 Network

active-directoryfolder-redirectionwindows 7windows-server-2008-r2

Okay so redirected profiles don't load exactly, but the computer is joined to the network and it won't display any of the users files on their desktop that are in their redirected profile. I know this because we have a Terminal Server and when the user logs in there, her files appear.

I checked the users' profile in Active Directory Users and Computers and compared it with a working users profile. When that didn't turn up any differences, I looked at her computer and found that on the Dial-in tab the Network Access Permission wasn't set to Control access through NPS Network Policy like it was on the other machines on the network; so I selected it, ran gpupdate /force on her machine and rebooted. This did not fix the issue.

Is there anything else that could be preventing the redirected files on the users desktop from showing up when the user logs in?

Best Answer

The user must have ownership of the redirected folder on the server side (Security -> Advanced -> Ownership). It is not enough to simply give them full control permissions to it.