DFS Experts?

PatZ1989 · 10 Dec 2010 at 10:37

I think this may be a long shot but yeah, working through this issue and can't stop hitting road blocks

have a directory shared through DFS, can browse to it fine, can map a network drive to it fine if you do it yourself on the client

Create a group policy to map the drive however, fails with the errror "network path cannot be found". got to say im a bit stumped on this one

Thanks to anyone with any ideas

PatZ1989 · 10 Dec 2010 at 11:25

It is the FQDN of the dfs share, was going to test by IP but obviously being a DFS share, it doesnt have one. like i said it maps fine if you just go on a computer, map a network drive to \\dfs.domain\share\, maps it instantly no problems start browing through the files.

group policy to map to the exact same place, cant be found

PatZ1989 · 10 Dec 2010 at 11:52

to add to the unsual nature, the group policy works as expected and maps the drive on XP machines, seems to just be windows vista and windows 7 that has the problem

PatZ1989 · 10 Dec 2010 at 15:06

Resolved now, whoever set up the GPO left a trailing slash at the end which, as we know, doesnt work for drive mappings through command prompt i.e. \\server\share\ won't work through scripting or GPO, needs to be \\server\share

Thanks for help though