To add an existing Windows user, click the Add user link in the Users panel
and then select Windows user(s) from the menu. When adding Windows users from
the local server then click List server's local users. When adding Windows
domain users (not available in Standard Edition) enter the domain name and click
List domain users. For domains with a very large number of users the size
of the list can be restricted and/or a filter can be provided to reduce the number
of users listed.
Once the list of users has been fetched and displayed, select the users to be added
from the list. Hold down the shift or control keys to select multiple users.
If a single user is being added and the checkbox labeled Automatically create home
folders is checked then a home-folder with the same name as the user will be created
automatically. The folder
will be created under the /Home folder in the virtual file-system, and by
default will be mapped to a Windows directory underneath
the directory to which /Home is mapped. The mapping can be changed by clicking
the ellipsis (...) to the right of the label of the checkbox. By default, the mapping
is created using the template %HomeBaseFolder%/%UserName%, but this can be changed
as desired.
If multiple users are selected when the Add selected user(s) button is clicked
then a dialog-box will pop up. In this dialog-box you can choose to create a
home-folder in the same manner as described above for single users, or you can
choose to use the same directory for all users.
Once all users have been added click Close to close the dialog.
Back in the Users window, all the users that have just been added will be selected, so
that any properties that must be set commonly for all users may be set.