Folder exists shared, not locally... ??????

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D:\Home Folders\user is the path to all the user's home directories on the server.

One user has this problem. Can access his data just fine, from any machine (including the server itself) using the \\server\home folders\user path.
But going through D:\Home Folders\user that user's folder is not there. I'm showing all hidden folders and don't know what the heck the deal is???

I've tried restarting explorer.exe... Rebooting the server itself is out of the question at the moment, but I really don't think it'd resolve it, personally.
 
need to be a little more clear...

how are you trying to access this folder? via run? a folder address bar?
try putting quotes around the path? sometimes Windows is finnicky if you don't put quotes around a path where a folder name has a space in it.

why I, for one, recommend NOT using long folder names for roaming profiles especially.
 
It works for everyone else though, always had.

It doesn't matter how I access it. Accessing via the complete server share (\\server\home folders\user) works fine. If I access it via \\server\home folders\, I don't see the user folder there. However I can append the \user to the end of it and get into it just fine.

I'll just say this: it acts like it's a hidden folder. But the problem is that it's not, and I've got hidden and system files turned on as visible.
 
Sounds like NTFS permissions for the home folders directory doesnt allow that user to list folder contents.
 
The Administrator of the domain? Nope- that account has full permissions, that's not the issue.

As a side note, a dir on that directory lists that user's folder just fine. Seems to be an issue with Explorer.
 
Alright... This was weird. I happened to be scrolling through the user folder listings and here's what I found...

There was a folder with the name "Documents" in that directory with a different icon (not the standard folder icon but the folder icon with papers in it). This was the user's directory. I renamed it.
Seems to be fixed fine.

However that brings up the question how the hell that happened... It's almost like the Documents icon was an alias of sorts...
 
Code: 
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 2065-3FE2

 Directory of C:\Users\Admin

10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <DIR>          S26-Win7-PC\Admin      AppData
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Application Data [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Cookies [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Local Settings [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    My Documents [C:\Users\Admin\Documents]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    NetHood [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts]
01/19/2010  09:37 PM        12,058,624 S26-Win7-PC\Admin      NTUSER.DAT
01/19/2010  09:37 PM           262,144 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    ntuser.dat.LOG1
10/26/2009  10:39 PM                 0 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    ntuser.dat.LOG2
10/26/2009  10:49 PM            65,536 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    NTUSER.DAT{016888bd-6c6f-11de-8d1d-001e0bcde3ec}.TM.blf
10/26/2009  10:49 PM           524,288 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    NTUSER.DAT{016888bd-6c6f-11de-8d1d-001e0bcde3ec}.TMContainer00000000000000000001.regtrans-ms
10/26/2009  10:49 PM           524,288 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    NTUSER.DAT{016888bd-6c6f-11de-8d1d-001e0bcde3ec}.TMContainer00000000000000000002.regtrans-ms
10/26/2009  10:39 PM                20 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    ntuser.ini
11/19/2009  11:38 PM             1,110 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    ntuser.pol
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    PrintHood [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcuts]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Recent [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    SendTo [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Start Menu [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu]
10/26/2009  10:39 PM    <JUNCTION>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    Templates [C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates]
               8 File(s)     13,436,010 bytes
              11 Dir(s)  727,891,456,000 bytes free
It is. Maybe the Junction had different permissions?
 
But like I said... Doing a dir on that directory from the command prompt listed that user's directory just fine. So it still existed. What I failed to notice is if the dir had the Documents folder listed or not, though.

But it's almost like explorer.exe decided to hide the user's folder and only display this "Documents" folder.

Weird stuff. Never seen that one before, I'm just lucky I happened to notice that Documents folder sitting in there I guess.
 
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