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Using Netshare
362 Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator’s Guide
Netshare Directory Naming Conventions
To facilitate handling large quantities of individual home directories for every
Netshare user, a naming convention has been defined. Its page is at
doc_root / netshare_directory / home_directory
. The default is to
use the primary document directory for your server (
server /docs
), to use
/netshare
as the Netshare directory, and to use the user’s User ID as the
home directory’s name. Thus, on a default Windows NT installation for the user
JDoe
, the Netshare user’s home directory would created be at
C:\Netscape\server4\docs\netshare\JDoe
.
As server administrator, you can select one of the additional document
directories defined for your server as the document root, and you can define
different directories for the Netshare and home directories. If you change these
values on the Enterprise Server Set Up Netshare page, the configuration file is
changed to reflect your changes, and all home directories added subsequently
use the new directory values. If, however, you use the Netshare utility to
indicate different directories, the configuration file is not changed, so only the
user directories currently being added are affected.
One situation in which you might want to change the default directory path is
when you want to create a home directory for a user that does not map to their
user ID. For example, the user JDoe wants an additional Netshare directory
called
Project1
. In this case, the user ID would be
JDoe
and
JDoe
would be
assigned as owner of the
Project1
directory.
The Netshare Configuration File
Netshare uses a configuration file,
netshare.conf
, that contains the
following data:
• Document root
• Netshare parent directory
• Template filename
You can only modify this file from the Set Up Netshare page or manually
through a text editor. When you use the Netshare utility, the configuration file
is not affected.
When you use the Set Up Netshare page to change a default directory or
template file, you are updating the values in the configuration file. From then
on, any home directory that you create uses the new values.