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128 Chapter 7 Setting Up Home Folders
 Optionally, enter a disk quota for the user’s home folder and specify megabytes (MB)
or gigabytes (GB).
Important: This quota also applies to the user’s roaming profile if it’s on the same
volume as the home folder. Make sure the quota is adequate for both folders for an
entire work session. A user’s profile folder includes the My Documents folder and the
Internet Explorer cache, which often use considerable disk space. For more
information, see “Setting Disk Quotas for Windows Users to Avoid Data Loss” on
page 130.
3 Click Windows and enter the home folder location in the Path field:
 To use the same home folder for Windows login and Mac OS X login, leave Path
blank. You can also specify this home folder by entering a UNC path that doesn’t
include a share point:
\\servername\usershortname.
Replace servername with the NetBIOS name of the PDC server or a Windows domain
member server where the share point is located. You can see the server’s NetBIOS
name by opening Server Admin and clicking SMB in the Servers list. Then click
Settings, click General, and look at the Computer Name field.
Replace usershortname with the first short name of the user account you’re
configuring.
 To specify a different SMB share point, enter a UNC path that includes the share
point:
\\servername\sharename\usershortname
Replace sharename with the name of the share point.
4 From the Hard Drive pop-up menu, choose a drive letter.
The default drive letter is H. Windows uses the drive letter to identify the mounted
home directory.
5 Click Save.
6 If the Path field isn’t blank, make sure the specified share point contains a folder for the
user’s home folder.
The folder’s name must match the user’s first short name and the user must have read
and write permission for the folder.
If the Path field is blank, the home directory share point doesn’t need to contain a
home folder for the user. In this case, Mac OS X Server creates a home folder in the
share point specified in the Home pane.