Setting the Home Folder for AD-Authenticated Users

By default, the home folder for AD-authenticated users is /user/%username%. For some scenarios, you may want to create and assign each AD user a home folder that is actually a Virtual Folder (Similar to a shortcut, a virtual folder points to an existing folder on your computer or another system) pointing to a specified UNC path (Uniform Naming Convention path; e.g., \\computername\sharedfolder\resource). You can do this by editing the user’s profile in AD as follows:

1. Open a user's properties in your AD management tool, click the Profile tab, and look at the Home Folder section.

2. Click Connect, select any appropriate drive letter, then in the To box provide the desired UNC path. The UNC path will be used when creating your new AD Authentication site.

3. In EFT Server, when you create a new AD-authenticated Site, select the Automatically assign home folders to newly added users check box. If that option is enabled, the Home Folder setting for each AD user's properties will be requested from the network. If that value is set, then a new Virtual Folder will be created in EFT Server’s file system (the VFS) that points to that UNC path. When users log in through one of the available protocols, they interact with that UNC path that will be treated as their home folder.

You should enable the option to Treat home folder as the user's default root folder at the User Setting Level to confine users to their home folder regardless of the NTFS permissions on the directories above, to simplify the client's interface, and facilitate the use of HTTP/S and the Web Transfer Client.