Changing User Directory path

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Date: 08/25/04

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:52:12 -0700

Check KB320043.

Here's an exerpt:

Assign a Home Directory to a User from the Command Line
You can use the net user command to assign a home
directory to a user from the command line. For example, at
the command line, type net user
tester /homedir:\\server\tester$ , and then press ENTER to
assign the tester$ hidden shared folder on the server that
is named "server" to the user Tester.

Hope that helps.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I have 1200 users that have their user directory set to
>\\server1\username.
>
>I need to change this to point to \\server2\username.
>
>This also applies to the profile location.
>Is this easily scriptable?
>
>Cheers
>
>.
>

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