Active Directory browsing not possible! why?

[johnwolf2]

hay i try to sync from the AD active directory to a local path, but if i use
FFS to brows/choose the path, he isn't visible


path in windows explorer by GPO attached: [404, Invalid URL: http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/893/ffswindowsexplorer.jpg]

path in FFS by browsing: [404, Invalid URL: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9049/fffbrowsing.jpg]

[Zenju]

It seems this "SBA" is a non-standard shell extension. Are you able to access
the path if you enter it into FFS directly?

[johnwolf2]

yes, if i enter the path manually then click brows , it will show the path,
kind of - as soon as i help FFS it will delegate me to this path

any guess

[404, Invalid URL: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1279/ffsdirectlyg.jpg]

[Zenju]

So this "SBA" is a virtual folder to a network share on "\\sgr.com\sgr". On
the second screenshot only a single network share is shown, "sba02054w", while
on the third a list of shares is shown including "\\sgr.com\sgr". My guess is
"SHBrowseForFolder" (which is used by wxWidgets which is used by FFS) has a
timeout when searching the network. On your fist try the share could not be
reached within this limit, while when you manually enter it FFS accesses it
asynchronously (without any time limit). So when you now browse the network,
the path is cached and shown by "SHBrowseForFolder".