We are having some intermittent problems with our home directory mappings in Active Directory 2003. They map correctly a lot of times, but sometimes they map to the share root instead of the proper directory. Here is an example of how we have them set up //servername/HomeDir/John Smith. It is set to map to X: drive on the profile tab I know about the %username% settingt at the end, but the administration wanted the display names to show up instead of a login name like jsmith. Sometimes it will map correctly to the John Smith folder and sometimes John Smith will be mapped to HomeDir instead and he can browse everyone elses home directories. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Spike

This is 7 listings below yours: http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... "It is set to map to X: drive on the profile tab I know about the %username% settingt at the end, but the administration wanted the display names to show up instead of a login name like jsmith." Show up where? Just enter the path in the user's profile. "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

I'm sorry I did not see that post. "Show up where? Just enter the path in the user's profile." Sorry again for being vague. I meant it would show up in My Computer as a mapped drive named John Smith on x:/server name/... instead of jsmith on x:/server name/... I have been doing some reading and found another post at http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... that seems to have come up with a reasonable answer. I'm specifically speaking of Response #7 by blautens which says "I had the exact same thing happen - only on certain Windows XP PCs (it seemed like only newer, faster boxes). I found that disabling the XP Fast Logon via a GPO did the trick: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q30... Good luck, Bruce" But I still have a couple of questions. If i disable that setting, how will it affect users that take their laptops home each day? The other question comes from the post you referred me to. Does it matter if the home directories are on a separate server from the domain controller? Thanks. Spike