Home Directory Privileges

Did you remember to set share level permissions in addition to the NTFS perms on the directories?

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I've had problems with our Windows 2000 Servers by creating the Home directory and user space before entering in the path in Active Directory Users and Computers. My solution for that situation was to let Active Directory create the Home folder path for me:

First try creating a temp/test user. Open Properties on the test user whom you want to create a Home directory for using Active Directory Users & Computers. Go to the Profile tab and use \\comp_name\homepath\%username%

(of course, change comp_name and homepath to match your own) Keeping %username% , as typed, is the key - this will let Active Directory create the user Home folder and assign the default permissions for you. Later you can break the permissions inheritance and add your own, such as Administrator access.

May not be what you're experiencing, but allowing AD to create the folders solved my own "permission denied" problems.

Good luck!

Also check the share-mapped drive-for permisssion (parent folder).

This may be the interesting part. The parent directory is "shared for adminstrative purposes" and I cannot see or modify the permissions. So, I can't tell or control what permissions the home directory is inheriting. Either something is wrong here or I am (again) missing something obvious.

Point value changed (again) by question poster. Really need some help here...

I assume your Win2000 Server is NTFS formatted. The "shared for adminstrative purposes" appears in Win2000 default-mapped shares, such as the C$ default hidden share. I would suggest, for now, abandoning the existing home directory and creating another to test on.

Try creating a new home folder, say c:\tempdir, and share it with default permissions (Everyone group, full control). Go to AD, create a test user, and assign drive X:\ (for example) to \\comp_name\tempdir\%username% and see if you can't login as the test user and use the new X: drive.

If you can, then there is a problem with the existing home directory. The good news is, if no one was able to use it, you can easily abandon and remove it.

More info: Whoever set this up sold his client MUCH more server than they needed. There are four SCSI hard drives, C: through E:. I found the home directories set up in \\servername\users, which is the whole damn E: drive!! And the other drives are at most 25% used. Sigh.

About your comment on 4/9/02.
You can try two options:
-on parent folder which is "shared for administrative purposes" make other share which will allow you to control share permissions.
-on home directory disable and set the permission as you need.
About your comment to the answer 3
-I has a bad experience with setting the permission on server from my workstation. I use on my workstation for test only and after that I ignore it. Surprise!When I try to modify the permissions for a folder at server from my workstation in fact the results was different.
I don't have time to check the problem but you can try to assign the permissions from other location.

Yes, a directory in another partition will work, and if that is the work-around I ultimately have to use, findmattk@yahoo.com will get my points. But I am severely irritated that I have 25% of my available hard drive space named "Users" and I can'tuse it as it was intended! Darned if I can see any difference between the partion I can use and the one I cannot. So I will hang in there awaiting more suggestions for a while longer.

We finally gave up and mapped the home directories in the local accounts on each workstation. Very inconvenient and labor intensive. I am convinced that something went wrong when my predecessor did the original installation.

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