Creation of a standard account

Hi everybody,
It's my 1st post here. I have a Mac mini Server with Mac OS X Server 10.6.3. created an Administrator account during the set up process and everything run smooth.
Now I would like to create a plain standard account in order to use the Mac mini Server as a normal machine (I have this particular need). I went in System Preferences > Accounts and just created it without assigning Admin privileges (standard account).
It happens that when I log in as this standard account I am not able to see the HD thus I see the desktop; all the folders in the Dock show a question mark.
It seems that this account hasn't the privileges to see its own folder in Users folder.
Logging in as Administrator account I saw that the account's Users folder has been created properly and, furthermore, that this account has the right privileges.
Any help or advice about this strange behavior? It is a bug? Did I something wrong?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Max

next thing to check is in the serverAdmin tool what the access settings are for your normal user.
To begin with, you may allow all access for that user, see if that gives you back the icons and then restrict what you want via the admin user again.
Note that a normal user on OSXserver would normally have no access to ServerAdmin tool, workgroup manager etc. They should not appear in the dock, or may be when they do, it would show a question mark.

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