Specifying 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 pointing to a specified UNC path. 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, when you create a new AD-authenticated Site, select the Automatically create and assign home folders to newly created 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’s file system (the VFS) that points to that UNC path. When users log in, they interact with that UNC path that will be treated as their home folder.

  4. You should enable the option to Treat home folder as the user's default root folder on the User Settings Template General tab 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.

    Due to the lack of standardization among the various LDAP providers, this feature is not currently supported when using LDAP authentication.