When viewing a mounted shared filesystem that contains users home directories, many of the folders will be displayed in Windows Explorer as “My Documents” instead of the logon name e.g. bloggsj. When you’re looking for a particular users home directory and they’re all called “My Documents” it can get quite frustrating.
This occurs as a result of the users home directory containing a desktop.ini file and your windows client is designed to automatically assume you’re looking at your own home directory. It’s basically not smart enough to figure out it’s not yours but somebody elses. You’d think they’d patch this but they haven’t yet and it’s been this way now for years.
So, what to do (other than use command line to do everything)?
In Windows Explorer…
- Navigate to share eg \\Server\Users
- Right click on column SIZE
- Click on More at the bottom
- tick Filename
- Drag Filename column to the leftmost column and sort on it. (optional)
You then get an extra column showing the real filename that will totally overcome the problem and give you the visibility you want.
You could make this the default for folders by doing this.
In Windows Explorer
- Press ALT (to display the old fashioned menu)
- choose Tools->Folder Options->View
- Click Apply to Folders
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