Resolved Domain no access to my docs from one client

I have a strange issue where I have 3 seeminglyidentical HP Z200 computers running Windows 7 (64bit) Pro OS. Two work perfectly but recently the third has failed to show files in the my documents folder.

On the other drives there is no issue. All shared drives for example I can click on properties and see security settings set correctly. The home folder though won't display Security settings in Properties.

It happens with student and staff users and my Admin account - logging on as another Admin I was able to run Delprof2 then logging back on with my regular account a couple of times after a group policy refresh I found the problem persisted and indeed the machine had not picked up the proxy setting for Internet use either come to think of other issues?

 

In Internet Options -> Connections tab -> LAN Settings, compare the settings with a working computer. If it is like our domain, the checkbox for "Automatically detect settings" should be unchecked. I have found this unexplainably checked on our computers and it causes problems.

I will move this thread to Networking.

 

Thanks @mattman Yes it was ticked so I have unticked and rebooted but still the normal path my documents folder is showing as empty and if I access it by the mapped drive all the docs and folders have an x against them and won't open. Plus in Permissions there is no Security Tab shown even though I'm logged on as an Admin?

 

That may have overcome your proxy problem.

Have you had experience adding a computer to a domain? The security problems could be due to the computer only just being added to the domain, but not being put into the correct group (OU) in Active Directory.

Are you an admin in Active Directory? Check if the computer is in the correct OU.

Do you know the command GPUPDATE /force? Run it, but I find it mainly relies on the Active Directory configuration.

If you keep having problems, ask your Active Directory administrators.

Matt

 

Resolved now - turned out to be the OEM Windows 7 had become slightly corrupted. Updated it from a fresh copy and then it picked up a shed load of updates and now seems to be a very happy machine.