Folder Permission in Active Directory

[LuckyTaxi]

Maybe it's something I missed but here's what i'm looking to do. I've been doing it the long way by right clicking each user's folder and giving them permission AND denying everyone else permission.

1 - D:\Faculty on PDC
2 - map as drive Z in the login script under Group Policy

LOGIN.BAT
net use z: \\servername\sharename\%username%

So, say I have a user with a logon name of csmith

The folder on the PDC is located at d:\faculty\csmith

What I've been doing is right click the csmith folder and giving her and the domain admins all rights. No one else has been added to the permissions list. Isnt there an easier way to do this? I have over 400 students (hence, 400 folders), and I cant imagine doing this for all 400 folders.

Also, is there a way to make the users save their documents to the map drive (aka their home directory?). Like, if they save something under notepad, their default directory would be drive Z and not C!

I didnt add anything to the user's profile under "Login Script." What I did was assign the login script in the group policy.

 

[Saltin]

You can define the home folder under the Profile Tab in the User account properties. Click the "Connect to" radio button and then define the drive and UNC. I'm pretty sure that should become thier default.

 

[lowtech1]

As Saltin has suggested to copy & paste the \\servername\sharename\%username% in the home folder/path for every user profile. (MS suggested method)

But there is another way to go by creating a login template.bat that you are looking for:

net use %homedrive% %homeshare% %homepath%

Caution: Win2k & NT4 uses %homeshare% %homepath% variables differently from each other.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Adding the UNC path next to the "Connect to:" button is out of the question since there are over 400 accounts to go back into and add. Now, for the net use %HOMEDRIVE% etc... where do i define that stuff at? how will windows know which one the HOMEDRIVE will be? Is there a path to setup somewhere for the environment?

 

[lowtech1]

Environment Variables in Windows NT

At cmd prompt: net use /?

See if this work: net use z: \\server\share\%username% /home /persistant:yes