Vista folders

I recently had a crash on my servers that when I fixed started giving me
problems with DFS. I have gotten DFS to work with the windows XP machines,
but the Vista machines are giving me fits. Following the XP->Vista roaming
profiles whitesheet I have set it up correctly but am now unable to access
Documents, Music and Pictures from the Start menu, though videos work fine.
The only way I can access them is to go through the C drive and Users. Now I
have 3 files in the Users folder that I believe were for those previously,
but I cannot access the files. They are 0 bytes and cannot be deleted or
modified. I feel they were for this and would like to reestablish the
connection to them.

You may want to take over the ownership. This link may help,

Vista: "Destination Folder Access ...The administrator may lost the
ownership of the folder. To do take over the ownership, right click on the
file or folder. ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...3acf19 64ac7e


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"Michael R. Mastro II" <MichaelRMastroII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:8E83511E-2AC5-48E5-9178-51238F1B20D9@microsoft.com...
>I recently had a crash on my servers that when I fixed started giving me
> problems with DFS. I have gotten DFS to work with the windows XP
> machines,
> but the Vista machines are giving me fits. Following the XP->Vista
> roaming
> profiles whitesheet I have set it up correctly but am now unable to access
> Documents, Music and Pictures from the Start menu, though videos work
> fine.
> The only way I can access them is to go through the C drive and Users.
> Now I
> have 3 files in the Users folder that I believe were for those previously,
> but I cannot access the files. They are 0 bytes and cannot be deleted or
> modified. I feel they were for this and would like to reestablish the
> connection to them.

Tried taking ownership of the folders. This still did not fix the problem.
Going to properties on the start menu for documents, music and pictures
brings up a blank link. There is nothing on the general tab no name, no
size, no nothing. The sync center shows that everything is in sync.

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> You may want to take over the ownership. This link may help,
>
> Vista: "Destination Folder Access ...The administrator may lost the
> ownership of the folder. To do take over the ownership, right click on the
> file or folder. ...
> http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...3acf19 64ac7e
>
>
> --
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
> http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
> http://www.HowToNetworking.com
>
>
> "Michael R. Mastro II" <MichaelRMastroII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:8E83511E-2AC5-48E5-9178-51238F1B20D9@microsoft.com...
> >I recently had a crash on my servers that when I fixed started giving me
> > problems with DFS. I have gotten DFS to work with the windows XP
> > machines,
> > but the Vista machines are giving me fits. Following the XP->Vista
> > roaming
> > profiles whitesheet I have set it up correctly but am now unable to access
> > Documents, Music and Pictures from the Start menu, though videos work
> > fine.
> > The only way I can access them is to go through the C drive and Users.
> > Now I
> > have 3 files in the Users folder that I believe were for those previously,
> > but I cannot access the files. They are 0 bytes and cannot be deleted or
> > modified. I feel they were for this and would like to reestablish the
> > connection to them.
>

Are you using DFS replication?
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Jeffrey Randow
jeffreycentex@gmail.com
Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
http://www.networkblog.net

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:00:00 -0800, Michael R. Mastro II
<MichaelRMastroII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Tried taking ownership of the folders. This still did not fix the problem.
>Going to properties on the start menu for documents, music and pictures
>brings up a blank link. There is nothing on the general tab no name, no
>size, no nothing. The sync center shows that everything is in sync.
>
>"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> You may want to take over the ownership. This link may help,
>>
>> Vista: "Destination Folder Access ...The administrator may lost the
>> ownership of the folder. To do take over the ownership, right click on the
>> file or folder. ...
>> http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...3acf19 64ac7e
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
>> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
>> http://www.ChicagoTech.net
>> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
>> http://www.HowToNetworking.com
>>
>>
>> "Michael R. Mastro II" <MichaelRMastroII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:8E83511E-2AC5-48E5-9178-51238F1B20D9@microsoft.com...
>> >I recently had a crash on my servers that when I fixed started giving me
>> > problems with DFS. I have gotten DFS to work with the windows XP
>> > machines,
>> > but the Vista machines are giving me fits. Following the XP->Vista
>> > roaming
>> > profiles whitesheet I have set it up correctly but am now unable to access
>> > Documents, Music and Pictures from the Start menu, though videos work
>> > fine.
>> > The only way I can access them is to go through the C drive and Users.
>> > Now I
>> > have 3 files in the Users folder that I believe were for those previously,
>> > but I cannot access the files. They are 0 bytes and cannot be deleted or
>> > modified. I feel they were for this and would like to reestablish the
>> > connection to them.
>>