Setting up new user home dir -- what is supposed to happen"

Folks:
Could someone tell me what Workgroup Mgr is supposed to do when you tell it to set up new home dir?
Right now it creates the dir, but sets the perms to drwxr-xr-x, owner root, and it's empty.
This means the new user can't do anything with the dir, and I'm fairly certain Wkg Mgr is supposed to have put some files in there?
Any clues appreciated,
Graham

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In my case, for a while now "Create Home Now" hasn't been working and the home directory is not automatically created when the user logs in. If I set it up manually everything works out, but I'd like to know why this is happening. I can't figure out what's wrong with the share point if that's the problem.

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