{"id":471,"date":"2011-01-31T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:51:09","slug":"the-directory-name-is-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The directory name is invalid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll have an mmc on the desktop or a shortcut to AD where you RUN AS and get the &#8220;The directory name is invalid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a fix for the AD shortcut issue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/832434\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/832434<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right click on the AD shortcut in properties and in the Start In put<\/p>\n<p>%windir%<\/p>\n<p>Fix for the MMC is to give the RUNAS user account permissions to the location of the MMC. If it&#8217;s on your desktop, then give permissions there. Not just to the icon, but the whole desktop folder or even the whole profile folder.<\/p>\n<p>The message basically means that RUNAS user doesn&#8217;t have permissions to that location. Shit error message but that&#8217;s what it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll have an mmc on the desktop or a shortcut to AD where you RUN AS and get the &#8220;The directory name is invalid&#8221;. Here is a fix for the AD shortcut issue http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/832434 Right click on the AD shortcut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,103],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-ad","tag-mmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}