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by kclouie

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I am running windows 2003.
I have set up a folder share called users for the user's home directory.
In the user's account profile, I set it as follow:
\\server\users\%username% and mapped to drive "Z"
This is what I have done in the past with Windows NT and Windows 2000.
What was nice about windows 2000 was when the user logs on to their computer, they will have access to drive "z" and they see the contents of their folder only. They were not aware of anybody's else folder.
Now in windows 2003 server, like in windows nt, the users will see drive "z" but when they open it, they will see everybody's folder. Now they don't have access to other people's folder because of the ntfs permissions that were set. However, this is very time consuming for the user to look through a whole list of user folders to find their work.

What can I do to set up windows 2003 server like the windows 2000 server environment. Or did I do something wrong.

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by jschein

easy... just change their folders that are being shared on the server to USERNAME$ That money sign will make it a hidden folder.

then change their mapping to \server\users\%username%$

also, change the sharing or permissions to Domain admin, and that user itself. Which will stop unwanted prying eyes of someone into that folder.

by rbgnr111

are you trying to do something like?

net use H: /home

if you have their home directory listed in their user profile
that will map it.

by holdenburg

It sounds like your setting up your login script ok, but try this> map any drive manually logged in as admin ie: map n: \\server\share\%username% and see if this is working with the admin. Next, make sure you have setup the rights to the individual user folders correctly. If you can map with the admin domain account and not the users, then you have an issue. Also check your syntax in your script and verify. The other issue with AD is that you can specify this in the user profile, but also setup a login script off the netlogin share to do this also. A sound proof way to handle different platforms within the domain. (ie: Winnt4, 2k and XP.)

Good luck....

Herb

by mj1

You have to remove everyone from all of the users folder and grant permission to the Admin and the user only per folder. So when they log on they are mapped to their folder only with only rights to their folder.

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