Home Directories in Active Directory
Ok, Windows Admins who don't know this, listen up. You know the way that you add home directories to user accounts in Active Directory? Yeah, you're fucking it up! I have to say that I cannot stand it when admins don't read AT LEAST the bare minimum of basic Windows / Active Directory management. I cannot hold it back anymore, I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind. Everytime I go to a customer site and see where some chucklehead has added the home directory in some stupid way (see below). 1. Create a new directory, either by calling the same as the username or something close. 2. Share out this directory as a normal share or a hidden share 3. Change NTFS permissions manually, or better yet, not at all. 4. Open the user account properties and put in the drive letter and UNC path to this new share. Ok, so now if you do anything in your life the correct way, do this (bare minimum): 1. Create a single directory under whatever path you like (eg...D:\Ho
