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by dave_king

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I am trying to map the complete users' home directory but it is not working. In User MGR for Domains, Under Profile, User Environmental Profile dialog box, Home directory

Connect H: \\Server\Users\%username%

What I expect when a user logs on is

H:\Users\Name

but what I get is only

H:\Users

then the user must navigate to their directory. We have tried a logon script but still get the same results. This is a NT 4.0 Server w/SP6a and Win98 Workstations. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Dave King
kingd@efiinfo.com

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by frobo

Hello, the reaction is very normal for NT, cause you are always using an share ! (\USERES)

That what you want is H:\Username, but this onyl works if you are using local mappings like D:\Users\%USERNAME% , then NT is going there and creating the%USERNAME% as a share(if it?s not existing).

by jeff williams

You need to create shares for each username. Then in User Manager, you map the share to \\servername\%username%. A drive mapping can only have two levels i.e. \\servername\sharename. Do this and the rest is a piece of cake. If you have NT clients, there's no need to use a login script to map their home drive. It will happen automatically as part of NT authentication.

by packerdawg

To take it a step further, create share points for all your users but use the $ at the end of their names to keep the share hidden. Example \\servername\username$.
This keeps users from attempting to hack shares they can see but cannot access.

by ustutz

You have a trade off here. The "correct solution is:

Share "Users" and create home direcotries as "H:\Users\%username%". This allows you to create home directories automatically from User Manager for Domains, but: Win95/98 will map "Users" to the home drive. NT workstations will map 'correctly'.

Alternative: Do not share "Users". Map home drives as "h:\users\%username%". But then you have to create each home directory manually and share it as "username" from the serve. But your Win95/98 workstations will map correctly. Don't really know what NT workstations will do at that point - hadn't tried that yet.

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