Creating SMB shares for users

Hello,
I am the sole IT person at a Highschool of about 500+ kids. We just bought a new mac mini server with a pegasus 12tb add on. We always used mac but the students data has been stores locally on computers. We would like to keep their accounts stored locally on a computer but give each student ~10gb of data in their own personal share that only they and administration can access. Is there a setting in workgroup manager for this? Obviously creating individual folders and configuring permisisions is not an option. Of couse this would be over smb so that the very few pc's we have could also access these shares in a pinch. Any ideas? I thought for sure this was possible via mac server.
Thanks for the help,
Lloyd

So essentially you were storing data locally and are looking to migrate that data to your raid/storage and give them access to that storage or start new/fresh with access for them to their own directories on the raid/storage if I'm reading this correctly? I'm confused when you state:
Obviously creating individual folders and configuring permisisions is not an option.
Essentially what I am assuming you could do, taking you are not binding into the mini server, is create network accounts (need to enable/configure Open Directory prior), or in your sitation even create local accounts via Server. OSX will by default create them a user folder on the Server HD, you can also create your own custom share(s) and enable those as home folders independantly for each user, again it depends upon your configuration(s) and growth plan(s). I believe the users directories have afp and smb enabled by default. You can then drill down into the user directories permissions via Server in Storage and customize permissions as needed for your situation (ie. user r/w admin(group etc) r/w everyone and others no access etc). I know I've read that Apple is doing away completely with AFP and migrating to SMB2 with Mavericks, though I have not "seen" this, not sure if it's already happening in the background and they are allowing AFP for legacy currently or what. I also know in previous versions of Server (10.6) you could more granularly enable/disable SMB access for user accounts as well so you could allow the protocol on various shares and also the protocol itself on specific user accounts. I don't see that in 3.1.1 (if anyone knows if this exists any more or has been removed that would be great). I do believe if you are creating local accounts, you will then be able to turn SMB on/off for that user via the System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing > Options button.
Once this is all established you can then authenticate via Windows with the proper UNC path ie. \\myserver-1\Users\usera and authenticate as usera. Anyway hope this helps, think it shoud give you some direction or answer(s)?

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