[BlutoniumBoy]

Last week I inquired about how to pull a list of all folders from a shared network drive.

After comparing the list of all users folders to the users listed in Active directory, out of 2,100 users I have a list of 568 people who are without home drives. This was done with simple queries in Excel. I used simple Visual Basic program that created all 568 folders, now I need to set the permissions for all these folders using a script that can pull the user IDs from the spreadsheet and apply the proper permissions to each folder.

I seriously need to look into taking some scripting classes and after this little project, I think I will.

Any help till then would be greatly appreciated.

Edited by BlutoniumBoy, 20 December 2006 - 09:46 AM.

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well...the easiest way to do this would have been through active directory users and computers....

you would right click on the user and choose the profile tab and set the "home folder" option to point to that folder on the proper server
(i.e. connect U: to \\servername\usersfolders\user'sfolder)

[dsenette]

well...the easiest way to do this would have been through active directory users and computers....

you would right click on the user and choose the profile tab and set the "home folder" option to point to that folder on the proper server
(i.e. connect U: to \\servername\usersfolders\user'sfolder)

[dsenette]

as a note...this would have also created the user's folders for you if they didn't exist

[BlutoniumBoy]

Well giving the fact we had no idea who had home folders, who shouldn't have them (i.e. Vendor accounts), and would didn't... this was not possible. However, you are correct, this would have been easier if possible.

In any event a script is still needed, otherwise I would be here all week applying permissions for 568 users >.<

Edited by BlutoniumBoy, 20 December 2006 - 10:09 AM.

[dsenette]

http://www.experts-e...Q_21019361.html

might give that a read?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135268
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754
and maybe those two

[BlutoniumBoy]

Thanks for the links, dsenette. I will look into trying these methods. Not sure how yet I can do this but I will figure it out.

[dsenette]

i think it's going to be pretty difficult to do it all at once...since (i would assume) you're wanting standard "users folder" type permissions (i.e. only the user it belongs to and the administrators have access to it)