Setting up a second home folder?

[Disease]

Not even sure this is possible but is there a way to setup and path a second home folder.

 

The issue i have is that photography students are using up massive amounts of space on my superfast nimble storage with photos I have bought a slower NAS server which I will open space on for them to save photos.

 

So.....

 

I am looking to find an automated way to create a folder for a user that is a member of the photography security group, in this share and maps to them only with the obvious security in place so they can access it, essentially a second home folder

 

I should add that my scripting skills are not great but can work through instructions if anyone has them

 

Thanks in advance.

[thepridster]

Not tempted to just make them a second user account they use in photography? like PH_*** etc or if they have cameras that would work with something similar to eyefi you could create a network share to upload to? id love to know if you find a way to create a second home drive sorry if this is a bit useless

[ForgotMyPassword]

Why not look at a cloud service for this storage? Best thing we ever did was our GAfE migration - unlimited storage? Thank you very much Google

[Sephiroth]

I would say that the easiest way to do this is to create a photography group and map a network drive with item level targeting.

 

On the NAS, create a directory to put everything in (e.g. Photography) and share this. Create a directory in this share for each user using their SAMAccountName from AD and give them Full Control access to their own folder and read only access to the root folder ONLY. Then using GPO, map their folder as "\\$NAS\$share\%USERNAME%" with Item Level Targeting based on the photography group.

 

I can help with scripting this if necessary, but it's not too dissimilar to what I do in some cases.

 

If that doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll try to clarify

Edited March 11, 2015 by Sephiroth

[LeMarchand]

Was going to suggest what @Sephiroth said. No scripting necessary!

[Disease]

Thanks guys.

@Sephiroth will give that a try today

[BFCIT]

Brilliant answer Sephiroth! thanks :-)

[hallb15]

@Sephiroth You've just solved a problem I didn't know I had until I read it! Brilliant!

[sted]

why not user folder redirection and redirect my pics to the new location leaving my docs where it is?

[Disease]

@Sephiroth Thanks, worked a treat, even found a script to create the folders and set permissions

[Sephiroth]

why not user folder redirection and redirect my pics to the new location leaving my docs where it is?

You could do that as a simple approach, but I didn't think that you could target that to a few users without putting those users in a separate OU.

 

@Sephiroth You've just solved a problem I didn't know I had until I read it! Brilliant!

Now I'm curious as to what!

 

@Sephiroth Thanks, worked a treat, even found a script to create the folders and set permissions

You're welcome!