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CIFS Administration 7-19
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Because share names are truncated to 12 characters, the home directory name might
show a truncated version of the user’s account name.
For example, consider the 13-letter name
administrator
. From the filer point of view,
the home directory for administrator has a name that exactly matches the account
name
administrator
, but use of that directory is offered under the truncated share
name
administrator
.
If there were users
administrator
and
administrator1
, they would see an offer for their
own home directory, but both would see it as an offer to share the name
administrato
.
Therefore, each user gets the correct directory, even though the share names appear
the same.
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The following procedure creates a share that automatically contains home directories
for CIFS users:
1. Enable the home directory option by entering the following command.
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Where
homedirpath
is the UNIX path name that will be mapped to the share
CIFS.HOMEDIR. This share automatically contains CIFS user home directories.
If the directory containing the home directories is
/vol/vol1/homes
, enter the fol-
lowing command:
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2. Within the directory specified by the
cifs.home_dir
option, create a directory
for each user. Make sure that the following conditions are met:
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Each directory name matches the user’s login name exactly.
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Each user is the owner of the directory.
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Using the
cifs.home_dir
option to create home directories is useful only if users
do not need to read or write other users’ home directories. If they must access other
users’ home directories, follow this procedure:
1. Create an additional share, from either Windows or the filer, that maps to the
same path name as the CIFS.HOMEDIR share.
2. From either Windows or the filer, assign each user the appropriate access per-
missions to other users’ home directories.