Question : SBS2008 Drive and printer mappings.

I have just installed a SBS 2008 network and am having some drive and printer mapping problems.

I am trying to map drives through the new GPO preferences and seem to be having only limited success. I have installed the Group Policy extensions on the XP machine but I still do not seem to be able to get a drive map and there are no errors in either the server or client event viewer. I have tried with AD published and unpublished shares.

I am also having trouble with printer mapping. My one XP client with GPO Extensions installed gets the printer but on the server I get this warning:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Group Policy Printers
Date:          12/11/2008 11:26:15 AM
Event ID:      4098
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      fqdn.local
Description:
The user 'printername' preference item in the 'domainpolicyname {ACA4DFA0-A7AA-4669-9729-A811F94BB5A0}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x8007007b The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.' This error was suppressed.

Could that warning on the server be a result of the other XP clients on my domain not having GPO Extensions installed?

Answer : SBS2008 Drive and printer mappings.

And more specific to GP Preferences:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729
XP Pro requires the update.
Philip