Select user account / Action / Properties Profile tab

You now have two options:

·         Specify a Local path for the user's home folder. This will create the home folder on the client computer, which really negates the whole point of using home folders (better simply to use My Documents instead).

·         Connect (map) a drive letter to where the user's home folder will be located on the network file server. You specify the location by entering the full UNC path to the user's home folder, in the form:

\\server_name\shared_folder_name\user_name

Note that the home folder has the same name as the username.

Click OK and the home folder will be created for the user and will be assigned the NTFS permission Full Control for that user only. Note that the ownership of this folder belongs to the Administrators group, not the user.

Example

If home folders are located in the Users share on member server MS1, you can create a home folder for the current user marys (Mary Smith) by specifying the UNC path as \\MS1\Users\marys.

Notes

·         You can also use the replaceable variable %username% to create a home folder for the current user. To do this, specify the UNC path as:

\\server_name\shared_folder_name\%username%

·         Using Start / Run \\server_name\shared_folder_name lets any authenticated user see the home folders of all other users in the domain. They can only access the contents of their own home folder, however, due to the NTFS permissions assigned to the folders.

·         A typical choice for the drive letter to map to the Users share would be H:, which stands for Home.