The Home Directories feature simplifies the management of per-user home directories for larger environments:
- A per-user network directory is automatically generated when the user initiates an SMB connection to the EVS.
- If configured in the AD user profile, a Windows client will automatically map the drive letter from %HOMEDRIVE% to the network share %HOMESHARE% as a user logs in.
- These variables can be set automatically from Active Directory, or by a user login script.
Windows OS can be configured to automatically attach a remote CIFS share as a user’s home directory when the user logs on. To do this, two environment variables are configured:
- %HOMEDRIVE% contains the drive letter to be used for the mapped drive.
- %HOMESHARE% contains the remote CIFS share to map