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When I am creating users in NT User Manager for domains, I select connect to H: then enter the path the the users home directories. For example: \\sharename\path\users\%username%

It creates the home directory just fine, but the map that is created only goes as far in the path as users, not all the way to the username. Any sugestions why would be greatly appreciated.

Kristen

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by vagab0nd

Share the users home folder itself. You may also want to make it hidden (by adding $ to the end) for the purposes of security.
Example will look like this:
\\servername\%username%$
You shouldn't have problems after that.

by jason.barnett

Kristen,

You can only have three components to a path for a users home directory, such as:

\\server_name\share_name\%username%

Therefore you need to shared the \users directory for this to work. As suggested above you may wish to make thisa hidden share (with a $ at the end of the share name) so that your users do not map to this directory when browisng network neighbourhood and hence have access to all other user drives.

One other tip would be to modify the file and directory permissions of each user directory to Administrators - Full Control and Username - Change Control. This prevents the more technical users from acessing each others user drives and prevents the individual user from changing the permissions to keep Administrators out.

Regards,

JB.

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