Changing User Home Path

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Michael Kintner

How can I automatically open the Users Profile and change globally the users
home path to \\servername\username%$. Or something like that.

Anybody have any ideas? Thank you in advance for anything.

Sorry for the multiple directory post but I did not know where to go?

Thanks,
Mike
 
Michael,

First of all the format would need to be something like
\\servername\users\%username% where there is a shared folder called 'users'
on a server called 'servername' and each user would need a folder named
'username' ( meaning, if Mary Smith has a user account called 'msmith' HER
folder would need to be called 'msmith' ). You would need to associate a
Drive Letter with this so you would need to make sure to select one that is
not a part of your logon script. H: is what most people use - assuming that
you are trying to create a so-called 'user home folder'. Please remember
that if these user folders do not exist in that shared folder they will be
created. What are you trying to do with the "$" at the end?

What is currently in each user's profile? Anything? How many users are
there? Does each user already have a folder set up? If yes, what is the
name of each folder ( meaning, is there a scheme to it )? Again, remember
that placing the \\servername\users\%username% in each users profile will
create that 'msmith' folder if it does not already exist.

What type of clients do you have ( meaning, all WIN2000 and above or do you
also have WIN9x clients )?

Is this something that can be done with a logon script? I know that this is
different from what you are asking, but I am not sure what you are trying to
do ( have an idea,though ).

HTH,

Cary
 
Do you know if a program that will take a whole directory and create share
name for all the folder within that directory?

Such as:
c:\users\name1
c:\users\name2
c:\users\name3

and have it create share name:

name1$
name2$
name3$

to each folder? So i could then use the \\servername\%username%$ and have
it mapped to the H: Drive for that user. I have to setup this type of H
drive because we still have 98 boxes and they do not support deep mappings.

Mike
 
Michael,

The method that I described will do what you need. Well, sorta! It will
even assign the permissions for you! This will work on WIN2000 and WINXP and
WINNT ( but it has been a really long time since I have messed with WINNT ).

I am not sure why you want/need the users 'home folder' to be hidden. I
knew that you were getting at that with the $ but was curious as to why.
Not really my place to ask but I am curious. I like to hide various shared
folders - especially ones that I do not necessarily want the 'curious' user
to see while browsing the network. I typically do this for the
'distribution point' that I use for deploying software via GPOs.

As to the WIN98 clients that you still have - I would really try to replace
them with WINXP or even WIN2000. I know that this is not an answer to your
question. Having WIN9x clients is a pain in the gizmo as this OS is really
a pain in the backside in a corporate environment. However, this does not
help you in your current situation.

For the WIN98 clients you might want to consider adding a section in your
logon script to take care of this. I believe that the /home switch will
help you.

HTH,

Cary
 
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