Adding Users

[Chris Harries]

I am setting up a 4 client 1 server network to practice my MCSE on, so I am
quite a n00b at the minute.

I am playing with adding new users, and I have a user and I am now setting
the profile path and home folder. Here is what I have

PP: \\server1\user_profile\%username%
Connect: N: to \\server1\user_dirs\%username%

my questions is the 2 folders user_profiles and user_dirs; where I make
them. My initial guess is c: but if someone could help me out.

When trying to login it also gives me the user is not able to logon
interactively, does anyone know what this means, I feel it could be that I
have not set the PP and Connect To paths yet or I am trying to logout and
connect under this name instead of connecting to the server via a client
computer, but that sounds just stupid., Any ideas

Thanks

 

[Chris Harries]

can nobody help me?

 

[Brian Cryer]

can nobody help me?

Which computer are you/your-users trying to log into when they get the
message that the user is not able to log in interactively? With
NT4/W2000/2003 there is a policy setting (but I don't recall where) which
controls whether someone is allowed to log in at the machine. The default
(for NT4 and I assume for windows 2000+) was that a "normal" user couldn't
log in at the server but could log in elsewhere. I can't tell you where this
setting is hidden, but presumably it must be somewhere in the active
directory.

On my Windows 2003 server, looking over the accounts I have, I have profile
path as empty, nor am I recommending any drives. That said, I don't see any
obvious problem with the profile path that you have - just be sure that you
have the necessary permissions set on the \\server1\user_profile\%username%
share. The prompt I get when I hit f1 on my account properties, says
\\server\sharedfolder\username which implies that it should be the username
and not %username%. Worth a try.

I'm no guru, but I hope this helps,

Brian.

www.cryer.co.uk/brian