Hi Camorri and thanks for your response.
Nope I didnt use the adduser command. A logon script that I have is inititated when a user logs on to their windows PC, this maps the network drives to a particular dir on the ubuntu server. If the home folder does not exist for the user, then it is automatically created (ive configured the PAM files too). The home directory is created for all users but in the /home/share folder so david home dir path would be /home/share/david. I would like for his dir to be created in /home/user/david if that makes sense. Before the reinstall the setup of the home dirs was exactly how we wanted but we now want to match the file system setup of our windows server.
Thanks for your help, but I am sure there must be a way as I managed to set the home dir to be created in home/share/user previously...if I cant figure it out I'll just have to manually add a home folder each time a new user joins the company.
Thanks for your help and suggestions Camorri - much appreciated!