User home directories, shares and permissions

Question

How are user home directories configured?

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Instructions

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Recommended installation structure:

The following structure is recommended when setting up users and user home directories on an NT/2000 server. Ranger Account Manager will by default create accounts conforming to these standards.

Alternative structures can be used, but this typical configuration works best for most environments.

User home directories:

Store user home directories in a D:Users folder. Typically the D drive should be a separate hard drive (recommended) or partition. Placing user accounts on a separate physical drive allows the drive to be easily moved into a different machine as part of a disaster recovery strategy.

Store all user home directories in the "users" sub folder. Sub-directories can be used to organise year groups but care must be taken to modify the account creation paths when creating accounts in Ranger Account Manager

eg: d:users
jbloggs
jspray
rbrand
pthompson

User home directories should be shared individually. Shares can be hidden by adding a sign after the share name. We do not recommend sharing only the root "users" directory and then configuring user directory paths as being relative to that. Windows NT and 2000 do not connect the home directory correctly with this configuration.

NT/2000 Accounts:

Profiles paths: If you have Windows NT4/2000/XP workstations it is recommended that the user profile path is set to turn on roaming profiles with the path pointing to:

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