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In this post we will see a way to create multiple home directories, remove inherited permissions, remove other users, and then give the user write access to the folder. 1. Create Share for Home Directories On your file server, create a share that will hold all your home directories. Be sure to allow Domain Users to have read access to this share 2. Get a list of all users We wanted the home directories to have the same name as the user's login name. I was able to export a list from Active Directory of all the login names. Save this as a text file with the name file.txt 3. Batch file to create directories Make a batch file with the following lines to create the home directories: @echo off for /f %%i in (file.txt) do mkdir %%i Place this batch file in the root of the share along with the file.txt. Run the batch to create the folders. 4. Removing Inheritance We don't want user's to be able to see the contents of other user's home directories. First we...

file & directory protection is a essential of any OS and Linux OS is no exception for it! These authorizations allow you to choose exactly who can access your files & directory, providing an overall improved system security. There was one of the major flaws in the older Windows operating-system where, by standard, all users can see each other people's information (Windows 95, 98, Me). For overcoming it, editions of the Windows based computer system such as NT, 2000, XP and 2003 lot more security features added. They fully support file & directory permissions, just as Linux system has since the beginning. Together, we'll now assess a directory listing from our Lab Linux system hosting server, to help us understand the information provided. a simple 'ls' command will give you the file and directory listing within a given directory, including the option  '-l' will display number of new areas that we are going to discuss here:

This post contains pointers to Windows Server 2003 support recommendations and tips. Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 Best practices Active Directory Best practices Best practices for Active Directory Domains and Trusts Best practices for Active Directory Schema Best practices for Active Directory Sites and Services Best practices for Active Directory Users and Computers Best practices for assigning permissions on Active Directory objects Auditing Security Events Best practices Best practices for Backup Certificate Services Best practices Certificate Templates Best practices Connection Point Services Best Practices Best practices for disaster recovery Best practices for Disk Defragmenter Best practices for Disk Management Best practices for Disk Quotas Best practices for Distributed File System (DFS) DHCP Best Practices DNS best practices Encrypting File Syste...