Google drive heeellpppp!!!

Banzai_Joe · 28 Apr 2015 at 12:18

Hi all,
I'm about to deploy android phones into our buisness.
I want to install google drive onto each persons computer, however all documents are redirected to our ws2012r2 server via GP.
Therefore i need to be able to set the google drive folder location within the redirected docs folder (on the server).
When i did this i get an error each time saying un unknown issue has occured error c3fb.
Searching the web has proven fruitless.
I also have it installed on my win8.1 pc but when i right click the icon in the system tray it doesn't bring up any options. All my other system tray apps work fine.

Any advice please, got to start deploying 69 of these devices over ther next week.

BuToNz · 28 Apr 2015 at 13:26

I've deployed Google Drive + SBS box at one company, they are a only around a dozen strong but have used this:
http://www.syncdocs.com/google-sync-features-and-details/

Really reasonably priced and very good for syncing network shares from the server out for access anywhere.

Banzai_Joe · 28 Apr 2015 at 14:19

Thanks for the info BuToNz.
I'm afraid for 70 users that's gonna cost quite a bit.
Most of our user already have a Microsoft account from using a WP8 phone. I'm wondering as OneDrive gives you 30gb not a measley 15gb like google whether its worth usng that to backup the android devices. I already use onedrive to backup the ipads and iphones and it doesn't throw a fit on our server like google drive does.
I really want to avoid more account creations....and extra costs, when surely google drive should just work!! Got google support to ring me about it....and it was a dead line, even though they rang me...wtf?!

lsg1r · 28 Apr 2015 at 14:46

I'd just use onedrive (there's an app

) on android then, from what I can tell once the app (I've got it on mine) is installed it has all the same features as google drive

Banzai_Joe · 28 Apr 2015 at 14:56

yep.
However, i;ve just realised i'm having the same issues with onedrive. I need to change its default location so that it sits on our fileserver. Apparently its easy but that keeps failing too.
Someone told me its to do with symbolic links.
Jesus, why is it so hard to achieve such a seemingly logical requirement.

BuToNz · 28 Apr 2015 at 18:27

What exactly are you trying to achieve here?

I only used 1x account for that software as the requirement was for their 'main data' folder to be synced so just loaded it on the server and installed the vanilla Google Drive software on the client PC's.

If its remote access to files you should really just be encouraging some sort of RDS/Citrix server or VPN.

Banzai_Joe · 29 Apr 2015 at 09:30

Ok,
we do use RDS, we have a mixure of users on RDS and local profiles.
Everyone has a smart phone that has the camera backup turned on, currently backing up to OneDrive, which is installed on our RDS, and thus onto each users RDS account.
However ALL our users (RDS and local) have their userdocs folder redirected to our FPS (file&print server) by group policy.
With me so far?
So, what we have is userdocs redirected to FPS but all phone data backed up to RDS. And RDS is only backed up at image level (hyper-v) which isn't backed up in the same granular way that FPS is, so recovery at file level isn't as easy.
The other things is local profile users would then need an RDS account just to action the onedrive backup.

Therefore all i wanted to do was effectively move each users onedrive/googledrive folder to WITHIN their redirected userdocs folder on FPS (so across a network share).
That make sense? Seems a very easy ask, but ridiculous to achieve.
This way it all gets backs up at files level AND is easier to access, especially things like camera roll photos when team members in the office may need to see pics that someone on site across the country has just taken.
I've also tried doing this from my admin pc (just in case it was a server issue), but changing folder location for onedrive fails and googledrive just keeps crashing with errors that i cannot find answers for.

BuToNz · 29 Apr 2015 at 10:45

Understood.

Sticking with OneDrive does appear to be the best way - the Android app will allow you to backup what you need.

The application I recommended will do the 'folder move' you require but yes, does appear you'll need a copy for each user.

I think the best thing to do is setup a backup job to run from the RDS to the FPS each night. The functionality you require just isn't possible. I've had no end of headaches trying to use OneDrive/Google Drive for anything but simple sync jobs.

Mujja · 5 May 2015 at 09:55

I have what you want working at home.

Folder redirection saves all Documents, Pictures etc on a file server inside a Google Drive folder which backs up everything my main account.

We use shared laptops at home so to save me the hassle of configuring for each user on every laptop I created a VM for each user with Drive and Google Music etc.

Onedrive and Google Drive will initially complain about being unable to sync from a network share. I didn't spend much time getting Onedrive to work as I didn't need it but was able to force Google Drive to use the network path. I don't remember what I had to do but it does work.

Documents, Pictures and Music are now synced to each users Google Drive and Music and available to their mobile devices. Each VM also has a Chrome session logged in for Cloud Print and the Canon network print app for network scanning from my MP620 which sends scans straight to their Documents folder