Where would my FTP home folders go?

Hi,
Im trying to properly setup a FTP service on a OSX Server (10.6.1) setup using the "Home Folder Only" setup. I wan to secure all my users and don't want other users to see other shares (Ie symlinks)
But I guessed my home folder would mount under the /Users/homedir folder, but it does not seems to be the case. The server manual gives no clue what so ever about where it would be stored.
Im noticing that the symlink is still showing, even if I have selected Home Folder Only. I have restarted the FTP server just to make sure the change where applied. Any help would be appreciated

I am having a similar problem. This is a clean 10.6.1 install. Basically FTP users are sent to the FTP Root and have no permission to do anything. I have the FTP advanced settings set to Show Home Only and have double-checked both the FTP service access permissions and the share point permissions for the Users directory and the various user home directories. They all check out. It appears to be ignoring the Advanced Settings.
Apparently nobody else has any ideas about this issue.

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Considered, but won't work for this application.
The students use different computers at different
times. For instance the question is about users on
eMacs some of the time and iBooks some of the time.
So they would have at least 2 different computers and
many people might use either of them at a different
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### My Hypothesis ###
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