Hi,
We subnetted our network to accommodate newer computers (lack of IP addresses), but we ran into a problem. We have the teachers computers and the students computers. The teachers computers are on the older range of 172.24.162.x and they're running Windows 7 (and are operational).
The students computers/other devices are running on the subnet, 192.168.0.x-192.168.1.x, and the majority are running Windows 7 (or iPad), and are working fine with their new addresses, but the machines running Windows XP aren't working.
When you login on the XP machines, it errors saying it can't find \\server\profiles\students\desktop which is applied as a folder redirection through the GPO. This works fine on Windows 7, just not the XP machines.
To get around this error, we changed the path in the GPO reidrection to the servers IP address \\172.24.162.2\profiles\students\desktop and gave the XP machines a static 172.24.162.x address so they would connect. This seemed to work, and the XP machines would login and display the desktop. But then the rest of the school network started to slow down, things weren't being applied, desktops wouldn't load, login would take up to 30 minutes on average, it was a mess. So I disabled the new path (\\172.24.162.2) put it back to \\server\, the rest of the network picked up like before, but the XP machines aren't working again. They're displaying the same error saying it can't find \\server\.
Anyone have any ideas why XP is such a PITA with this?
