Home directories

[snakeyes]

How do I automate home directories in Windows 2000??

 

[polymath5]

ScriptLogic will do that.

http://www.scriptlogic.com

Hyena and DameWare utilities do it also:

http://www.systemtools.com/hyena/

http://www.dameware.com/

I've found that ScriptLogic and Dameware are 2 utilities any sys admin doesn't want to be without. I recommend you check them out, they all have full featured trial versions.

 

[TomLet]

You can do this in Active Directory for Users and Computers. Pick a user and open the account, go to the profile tab. You can set the home directory there, I do mappings to a hidden share (ie drive letter to //server/share$/%username%). This will create a folder in the share with the same name as the username.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Why do you need to hide the share. MS doesn't recomend using the $ for hiding things as these are meant to be part of the OS. You could also do a simple batch file in profiles like net use. I have a batch file that goes and runs a program that tells me what they have loaded for software. It runs every ninety days, so if somebody has installed something like weatherbug, I can get rid of it. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com

"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
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