Howto: Change user’s home directory for multiple users
You want to change the user’s home directory for all or just a group of users. For example from \\servername\username to \\servername\home\username.
Step 1
This can not be done through the web interface (UMC) because even with multi-edit it would set the value to the same for all users. Instead, use udm on command line.
Step 2
Create a LDAP search filter to match your users. You might use the documentation for ldapsearch to create your needed filters.
Step 3
Once you have the list of the dn’s of the users you can use the udmcommand to change the desiredd variable:
udm users/user modify --dn "<DN of USER>" --set sambahome='\\server\home'
Note: Be aware of the single quotes above. If using double quotes use “\\server\home”.
Step 4
Put all the above together in a shell script and you can modify the users as needed.