Establishment of user home directories in a heterogeneous network environment

A computer program product in a computer readable medium for creating user home directories within a heterogeneous server network, comprising:

• means responsive to authentication of a user at a central server, for determining if a home directory function is supported within the heterogeneous server network;
• means for determining a name of a target server for creation of a home directory;
• means for extracting a type of server for the target server named;
• means for issuing appropriate commands based on the type of target server, to create and/or attach a home directory on the target server;
• and
• means for granting access to the user throughout the heterogeneous server network, to the home directory created on the target server.

A computer connectable to a heterogeneous server network comprised of central and managed servers running native and non-native operating systems, comprising:

• a processor;
• an operating system running on the processor;
• a mechanism for creating user home directories within the heterogeneous server network, comprising:
• means following authentication of user at a central server for determining if a home directory function is supported within the heterogeneous server network;
• means for determining a name of a target server for creation of a home directory;
• means for extracting a type of server for the target server named;
• means for issuing an appropriate command based on the type of target server named, to create and/or attach a home directory on the target server;
• and
• means for granting access to the user throughout the heterogeneous server network, to the home directory created on the target server.