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NW Admin Lab Exercise 3 User

This document provides instructions for adding new users to Active Directory, creating home directories, and setting up roaming user profiles on a domain controller. To add a new user, open Active Directory Users and Computers, right click the Users folder and select New User. Fill in the user information and set permissions. Home directories are created by sharing a folder and connecting a user's profile to the UNC path. Roaming profiles allow a common desktop environment across PCs by storing the user profile on the domain controller.

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NW Admin Lab Exercise 3 User

This document provides instructions for adding new users to Active Directory, creating home directories, and setting up roaming user profiles on a domain controller. To add a new user, open Active Directory Users and Computers, right click the Users folder and select New User. Fill in the user information and set permissions. Home directories are created by sharing a folder and connecting a user's profile to the UNC path. Roaming profiles allow a common desktop environment across PCs by storing the user profile on the domain controller.

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Unity University

Department of Computer Science


Dessie Campus

USER MANAGEMENT

ADDING NEW USERS TO ACTIVE DIRECTOR

Method:

Click Start, highlight "Administrative Tools" and select "Active Directory Users and Computers"

Now, expand your domain name on the left side, and go to the bottom where it says "Users".
Once you click on that, you will see all of the automatically created users, you will also see all of
the users you made before you ran dcpromo - that's because they all stay through the promotion
to DC. Anyway, to add a user, you can either right click the "Users" folder on the left side, or
the blank area on the right side, and highlight "New" then click "User"

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In the next dialog we can set the user's First name, Last name and various other pieces of \\
information, including their log-on name, and domain to which we want to add them

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After clicking "Next" you are presented with the password-settings screen. You can set the
user's password and then have them change it on their first log-on by selecting "User must
change password at next logon". But in this tutorial, I will set it as their password, and not allow
them to ever change it without asking me (the administrator) to change it for them

In the next dialog, we get a summary of the user to be created. Click "Finish" and the user has
been created.

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Note :
After creating user accounts, a user can log on to any client machine in the domain. But he can
not log on to the server. In order log on to the server he has obtain "Allow log on locally"
permission.

To assign this permission use the following steps

1) Log on as administrator in the server.

2) Open "Domain Controller Security policy" and then select “local policies”.

3) Double click on "User rights assignment" and then open "Allow logon locally"

4) Press the “add” button and browse to select the user and press “ok”.

5) To update the policy choose start -> Run and type “gpupdate” this command will update the
group policy.

Creating & Setting up a home directory


A Home directory is a user's personal directory in which he can store all his data. This directory
resides in the server and it will available as a mapped drive wherever the user logs in.
Because of this the user need not depend a particular client computer to store his data. Since this
directory is available throughout the network he will be able to access it from any client
computer.

To setup a home directory use the following steps

1) In the server log in as administrator and create a folder under any one of the NTFS drives.

2) Share the folder with full control to everyone.

3) Open “Active directory users and computers” (dsa.msc) and double click on the user to
whom you want to setup a home directory.

4) Click on the “profile” tab and choose “connect” and in the 'To' box type the UNC (Universal
Naming Convention) path

e.g : \\server1\home\jhon

5) A folder will be created automatically inside the shared folder which was created in the first
step.

6) The home directory will be accessible for the user when he logs in; inside the My computer as
a network drive.

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User Profiles
A profile is a set of user specific data, which consists of the desktop environment of a user, the
my documents folder, the start menu etc.

By default every user has a local profile and it is stored in the local computer inside the system
drive\documents and settings folder.

e.g- C:\documents and settings\ramesh

If you want a common desktop environment for the user then a roaming profile has to be setup.
The roaming profile is stored in the domain controller; and therefore is available wherever the
user logs in.

This allows him to see the same desktop wherever he logs in.

To setup a roaming profile

1) Log in as administrator in the server and create a folder inside any one of the NTFS drives

2) Share the folder with full permissions to everyone.

3) Open Active directory users and computers and double click on the target user.

4) Click on the profile tab and type the following inside the "Profile path" text box.

: \\server\sharename\username

Eg. \\server1\profile\ramesh

5) To check the profile status, log in as a user and right click on my computer choose properties

6) Click on advanced tab, and press the settings button under user profiles.

7) Check the profile status and type; it should display roaming.

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