Windows Server: how to create a new user specifying home directory?

Question

I need to add an RDP user to my win server 2008.

I'm able to create but in this case i have a specific need. this user MUST NOT HAVE a home folder with . appended.

if I create a new 'pippo' user, it will be created with their home as pippo.domain, but this make a 3rd party legacy sw to crash !

So I want to create the new user giving to it the home folder 'pippo', and NOT pippo.domain.

How can I do this?

NB: we are not using Active Directory

Answer 1

You have many ways of creating home folder not just for domain users...

To assign a home folder to a domain user:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the console tree, click Users.
3. In the Details pane, right-click the user account, and then click Properties.
4. In the Properties dialog box, click Profile.
5. Under the Home folder, type the folder information. To do this, follow these steps: To assign a home folder on a network server, click Connect, and then specify a drive letter. In the To box, type a path. This path can be any one of the following types: Network path, for example: \server\users\tester You can substitute username for the last subfolder in the path, for example: \server\users\username Note In these examples, server is the name of the file server housing the home folders, and users is the shared folder.
6. Click OK.

You have here the steps to create home directories for users