Scripted Home Directory Paths Require That Folders Exist

You can script home folder and Terminal Services home directory paths in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Home folder paths can be scripted by using Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to modify the HomeDrive and HomeDirectory properties of a user account. You can also modify Terminal Services home directory properties using a custom Component Object Model (COM) object that wraps the Windows Terminal Server (WTS) APIs (WTSUserConfigTerminalServerHomeDir and WTSUserConfigTerminalServerHomeDirDrive).

Your scripting can make modifications to a user's account, but you need to manually create each user's folder and to assign the appropriate permissions, which by default, are Administrators - Full Control and User - Full Control.

For example, if you set a user's HomeDrive to drive D and HomeDirectory to \\Server\Share\Username, you need to create a Username folder under Share and assign to it the appropriate permissions.

When you assign these properties through Active Directory Users and Computers or Local Users and Groups, user extensions are in place that create these folders and assign the appropriate permissions.

For additional information about using ADSI to create user shares, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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