Change Profiles, Login Scripts, and Home Directory to other locations 2

[DragonSl]

Dear Experts,

For ease of backup and larger home directory space for users, how do I route NT 4 Server's user profiles, scripts, and their home directores to a different location that is also a different partition on the NT Server hard disk please. I have search all the threads, Technet, and Yahoo, and without success.

Many thanks to all of you.

DragonSl

 

[meastaugh1]

In user manager, change the user's home directory. That's how you do it for home directories, which is going to be the large portion of disk space used.

 

[DragonSl]

Hi TechnicalUser,

NT4 did not create the home directory for me. I created it myself. Tried to map to the home directory but failed.

Syntax used: \\servername\shared-directory-name\user-home-directory-name in the Home directory path. The shared directory is in the second partition of the NT4 boot drive.

Map syntax used: map H: \\servername\shared-directory-name\user-home-directory-name.

Shared directory is shared with "everyone" permission.

What about profiles?

Thanks for you reply.

 

[meastaugh1]

Not sure how to move profiles.

As for the home directories, you simply move the directories to the different partition/server, resetting shares as necessary. Then modify the path on the client as necessary, ie: net use h: \\servername\new-shared-directory-name\user-home-directory-name

If you did want to specify a home directory in NT User Manager, to map to it you'd just need to use this command on the client:

net use h: /home

Is that ok, or am I missing something?

 

[OzDog]

Little known feature of User Manager may help here... Makes it very quick to edit multiple users.

We all know you can use the %username% variable in Home Paths and Profile paths, but you can combine this with multiple object selection aswell. i.e. - Select the first user, hold shift and select the last user that you want to modify, pree Enter and voila - you are now editing the properties of all selected users. Set the Profile path to \\server\newprofile-share\%username% and the home path to \\server\newhomepath-share\%username% and all the names will be filled in appropriately.

If you move the data and re-create your shares when no-ones around, then use this technique, you will finish in record time. Cheers,
Sam

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[DragonSl]

Thanks everyone,

I have found the solution, and all your suggestions are good too. Thanks you very much indeed.

Simon