rights to users home folder

[Guest Bill]

Hi,

I am trying to set up the proper rights to give users a home directory

on a win 2k3 server. the file structure is like this:

\\server\ou\users with each user having his own folder like this:

\\server\ou\users\user1....user2....user3....etc.

 

is there an easy way to give them rights to their own folder without

having rights to all the other folders in the \users folder?

 

thanks in advance

Bill

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: rights to users home folder

 

Bill <wlawrence@niskayuna.org> wrote:

> Hi,

> I am trying to set up the proper rights to give users a home directory

> on a win 2k3 server. the file structure is like this:

> \\server\ou\users with each user having his own folder like this:

> \\server\ou\users\user1....user2....user3....etc.

>

> is there an easy way to give them rights to their own folder without

> having rights to all the other folders in the \users folder?

>

> thanks in advance

> Bill

 

My first question is, why home directories at all in this day and age? Use

folder redirection instead, for My Documents at least (also can do this for

Desktop & Application Data).

 

Also, you've written \\server\ou - that's fine for a share name but does

make me wonder if you think this has something to do with OUs, which it

don't. :-)

I'd use \\server\users$ (a hidden share, and not a subfolder of another one)

 

Re permissions on \\server\users$ ...

 

Share = Everyone, full control

NTFS security - see if http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443 helps - it's

for folder redirection, but I think it works for home directories, too)

 

 

You might also see

http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-server-2003/139013-home-directory-permission-soup.html -

and if you have W2003 R2 see

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=276.

 

I have stopped using home directories on any new installs and am slowly

migrating my clients over to use folder redirection. You can map a drive to

\\server\users$\%username%\My Documents if need be although it isn't

necessary.