You can automate user account creation and home folder assignment. You can use the net user command to create local user accounts in configuration scripts.

Create a logon script

The following example creates a user named "tester". The user is created with a comment, password expiration settings, home folder, and profile path configured:

NET USER tester /add /comment:"Example Account for User"
/expires:never 
/homedir:\\zippy\%username%$ 
/profilepath:\\zippy\profile

Assign a logon script to a profile

To assign a logon script to a profile, follow these steps:

1.	Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2.	Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
3.	In the console tree, click Local Users and Groups, and then click Users.
4.	Click the user account, click Action, and then click Properties.
5.	Click Profile, and then type the file name of the script in the Logon script box. Note: For local accounts, the logon script path is %Systemroot%\System32\Repl\Import\Scripts. However, this folder is not created if you perform a clean installation of Windows Server 2003. If the logon script is stored in a subfolder of the domain controller, type the following login script path before the logon script name: sysvol\domainname\scripts

Note: You can also use Group Policy to assign home folders. For additional information about using Group Policy to assign home folders see the "To change the path of a user's home directory" topic in the Windows 2003 help files.