Login problem SBS 2003

Hi

I have a problem loggin in on a SBS 2003 system. My workstation is XP-Pro.
The system is using roaming profiles. The user home directory (H:) is on a
share (\\servername\username$\). When I log in the "My Documents" folder
starts to duplicate itself into itself (foldar plu contents). The structure
of the folder looks like: H:\My Documents\My Documents\My Documents\My
Documents\My Documents\. It is doing so while showing "applying your
personal settings" and it continues doing so until I interrupt it (or
diskspace on the server is exausted I guess :-( ).
Has someone seen this before or (even better!) solved it?

Joop

Pegasus
Wed May 07 02:00:37 PDT 2008


"JWHM" <joopmuis@tiscali.nl__nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a problem loggin in on a SBS 2003 system. My workstation is XP-Pro.
> The system is using roaming profiles. The user home directory (H:) is on a
> share (\\servername\username$\). When I log in the "My Documents" folder
> starts to duplicate itself into itself (foldar plu contents). The
> structure of the folder looks like: H:\My Documents\My Documents\My
> Documents\My Documents\My Documents\. It is doing so while showing
> "applying your personal settings" and it continues doing so until I
> interrupt it (or diskspace on the server is exausted I guess :-( ).
> Has someone seen this before or (even better!) solved it?
>
> Joop
>

I have seen this happen with junction points. They look like so from
a Command Prompt:
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C is CH-SYSTEM
Volume Serial Number is BFCE-EC74

Directory of C:\

Mon 24/03/2008 00:39 <DIR> Documents and Settings
Wed 07/05/2008 10:57 <JUNCTION> fnl
Thu 01/05/2008 21:23 <DIR> MYOB105
Tue 06/05/2008 23:40 <DIR> Program Files
Tue 06/05/2008 23:43 964 RDir.txt
Wed 07/05/2008 07:56 <DIR> WINDOWS

Unlinking them with linkd.exe should fix the problem.

JWHM
Wed May 07 08:11:00 PDT 2008

Thanks for the tip. I checked, but unfortunately I did not have any
junctions in my home dir.
Other Ideas?

Joop

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>
> "JWHM" <joopmuis@tiscali.nl__nospam> wrote in message
> news:fvro8f$mft$1@localhost.localdomain...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a problem loggin in on a SBS 2003 system. My workstation is
>> XP-Pro. The system is using roaming profiles. The user home directory
>> (H:) is on a share (\\servername\username$\). When I log in the "My
>> Documents" folder starts to duplicate itself into itself (foldar plu
>> contents). The structure of the folder looks like: H:\My Documents\My
>> Documents\My Documents\My Documents\My Documents\. It is doing so while
>> showing "applying your personal settings" and it continues doing so until
>> I interrupt it (or diskspace on the server is exausted I guess :-( ).
>> Has someone seen this before or (even better!) solved it?
>>
>> Joop
>>
>
> I have seen this happen with junction points. They look like so from
> a Command Prompt:
> C:\>dir
> Volume in drive C is CH-SYSTEM
> Volume Serial Number is BFCE-EC74
>
> Directory of C:\
>
> Mon 24/03/2008 00:39 <DIR> Documents and Settings
> Wed 07/05/2008 10:57 <JUNCTION> fnl
> Thu 01/05/2008 21:23 <DIR> MYOB105
> Tue 06/05/2008 23:40 <DIR> Program Files
> Tue 06/05/2008 23:43 964 RDir.txt
> Wed 07/05/2008 07:56 <DIR> WINDOWS
>
> Unlinking them with linkd.exe should fix the problem.
>

Pegasus
Wed May 07 08:39:37 PDT 2008

I'm not aware of any other causes that might be behind your
problem but I wonder if your search for junctions was sufficiently
thorough. If this was my problem then I would run this command
from the Command Prompt:

dir /s /ad "d:\UserData" > c:\dir.txt

Now search dir.txt for the word "junction".

Your last resort would be a reformat of the volume that carries
the problem folder.


"JWHM" <joopmuis@tiscali.nl__nospam> wrote in message
news:fvsgpk$6bh$1@localhost.localdomain...
> Thanks for the tip. I checked, but unfortunately I did not have any
> junctions in my home dir.
> Other Ideas?
>
> Joop
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> schreef in bericht
> news:OFVeSDCsIHA.3680@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "JWHM" <joopmuis@tiscali.nl__nospam> wrote in message
>> news:fvro8f$mft$1@localhost.localdomain...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a problem loggin in on a SBS 2003 system. My workstation is
>>> XP-Pro. The system is using roaming profiles. The user home directory
>>> (H:) is on a share (\\servername\username$\). When I log in the "My
>>> Documents" folder starts to duplicate itself into itself (foldar plu
>>> contents). The structure of the folder looks like: H:\My Documents\My
>>> Documents\My Documents\My Documents\My Documents\. It is doing so while
>>> showing "applying your personal settings" and it continues doing so
>>> until I interrupt it (or diskspace on the server is exausted I guess
>>> :-( ).
>>> Has someone seen this before or (even better!) solved it?
>>>
>>> Joop
>>>
>>
>> I have seen this happen with junction points. They look like so from
>> a Command Prompt:
>> C:\>dir
>> Volume in drive C is CH-SYSTEM
>> Volume Serial Number is BFCE-EC74
>>
>> Directory of C:\
>>
>> Mon 24/03/2008 00:39 <DIR> Documents and Settings
>> Wed 07/05/2008 10:57 <JUNCTION> fnl
>> Thu 01/05/2008 21:23 <DIR> MYOB105
>> Tue 06/05/2008 23:40 <DIR> Program Files
>> Tue 06/05/2008 23:43 964 RDir.txt
>> Wed 07/05/2008 07:56 <DIR> WINDOWS
>>
>> Unlinking them with linkd.exe should fix the problem.
>>
>
>