setup roaming for multiple users

You don't have to set up folders for each user.
Set up a profile directory on a server,lets say called profiles. then in each users account put the following in the profile path
\\server\profiles\%username%
The username with the variables will automatically fill with the actual users name when the change is made.
The first time the user logs on, their roaming profile will be created on the profile share. You don't have to make the folders.
Cutting and pasting \\server\profiles\%username%
even for 100 users will only take about 15 minutes. when creating a user account in the future by copying an existing user account, the new user will have their proper profile path set up automatically.
Make sure your profile folder has full permissions for authenticated users, so that the users profile is able to be created upon the first logon. You may also want to use group policy to give Domain administrators full permission to the users profile, so you have better control over profile management. Otherwise even as an admin you won't have access to the users profile on the server.

Answer 2 will work but here are some additional tidbits.

1. If you are using Active Directory you can select multiple users, do a right-click, select properties and you will be presented with the account settings that can be applied to all selected accounts. There you can enter the profile path suggested in Answer 2.

2. The setting in Group Policy for applying Administrator privledges to profiles only applies to profiles created from an Windows XP system. Windows XP locks down the profile to the user only by default.

In answer three the author notes that WinXP user profiles have the permissions locked down to just the user. This is actually by design and has been since WIN NT 4.

But the mass select option is awsome. Again the pathing you'll want to use is \\server\share\%username% ... the %username% wildcard is the important part there.

As for storing the profiles on Novel. While possible I would highly recommend against it unless your Windows/Novel intergration is very stable and proven.

realistically you should be looking to add some GPO controls to the users so that the profiles don't grow insanely large. Unrestricked growth will cause MANY issues down the line to include;
1. Slow / Long logon times during heavy usage times (morning, just after lunch and when users are logging off and the profile is writing back to the network share)

2. Corruption... While many speculate as to why this happens the fact is that profiles corrupt at seemlingly random times. Hundreds of factors go into why a profile might corrupt, but a HUGE factor is profile size.

So there is more to just adding the roaming profile to the user account to consider here. Just keep some of these things in mind and make sure that you have a good solid test population to beat up. IT dept's make good test subjects!