Homes - Procedure

Here we explain how to create a home directory skeleton for our SOHO server and how to create a Unix account for Windows administrator.

Home directory skeleton

cd /etc/skel
mkdir -p Client/Windows && cd Client/Windows
mkdir Home; mkdir Profile; mkdir Personal;
cd Personal
mkdir AppData; mkdir Desktop;
mkdir Documents; mkdir Favorites

Win-Admin

Goal: create all-latin named administrator account

• Go to Administration/Domain Users and copy Administrator to winadmin and to vit.
• Login once as winadmin and as vit.
• Copy the Administrator profile to winadmin:
  • Log in as vit.
  • Choose My Computer > Properties > Advanced > User Profiles > Properties.
  • Choose the Administrator profile and click Copy to.
  • If the button is grayed, then the administrator is being logged in, and we have to log him out.
  • Choose the path C:\Documents and Settings\winadmin
  • On the Enable use panel click the Change button and add the winadmin user.
  • Click OK.
• Similarly, copy the Administrator profile to vit, while logged in as winadmin.

If copying is performed before the first login, the profile will be created in a different place. Need to login once as target user (so that D:\histname is created), logout, and copy the profile after that !!!