Mixed clients

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I've searched high and low for a solution to this so I'm hoping one of you has it.

Our school district recently moved into completely new buildings. Along with new buildings came new servers. We used 2000 Server at the old buildings and used roaming profiles which worked except it was dog slow, used up way too much space on the drives, etc...

Anyways with the move our A-site the provider who provides email, internet, filtering, etc.. to us wanted to start fresh and used folder redirection. I have no problem with it users don't either well most don't, but you catch my drift. The problem I'm having is that because of the folder redirection setting used "redirect to the users home directory" 2000 clients will not work because they can't map to the home folder directly it must be a UNC path. Our XP clients have no issues aside from some users who still save to folders we don't redirect

My question is aside from scripts which we have tried in the past and worked okayish our A-site didn't like it. They say they can get it working, but they've yet to do anything. So does anyone have any suggestions as how to get these older boxes working alongside the XP boxes.

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I would say the simplest way is to redirect to a single folder and use the %username% variable in the path. For example if the home folders were at \\server\share\username, you'd set the redirect to \\server\share\%username% and it will take care of the substitution at login. If that's not possible (for example home folders are in several different locations), it might be a bit more tricky.

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