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Using Netshare
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When you use the Netshare utility to create a Netshare home directory for an
individual user, the server marks the user as licensed if not yet marked as such,
creates the user’s Netshare home directory, and assigns ownership of the files
and folders in that directory to the user ID that was entered.
When you use the Netshare utility to create a Netshare home directory for a
group, the server marks the group’s owner as a licensed user if not yet marked
as such, creates the group’s Netshare home directory, and assigns ownership of
the files and folders in that directory to the owner’s user ID. This also gives all
users in the group read-write access permission for all files and folders in the
home directory.
When you use the Netshare utility to create Netshare home directories for all
users at once, the server searches through the local or LDAP user directory for
your server and creates a Netshare home directory for each user who has been
marked as licensed but who does not yet have a Netshare directory.
Syntax of the Netshare Utility
netshare -u user_ID -r server_root -s server_name [-alXxv -d dir_name -o owner -g group]
Required fields: You must provide the name of your server instance and the
path for your server root so that the utility can locate the appropriate
configuration file for your server. You must use either the
-a
(all users) or the
-u
(single user) option to indicate which user directories you want to create.
Table 15.2 The Netshare utility options.
Option Description
-u user_ID Identifies the user ID to assign as the owner of the
Netshare home directory, marks this user ID as licensed
if it hasn’t already been marked, and creates a home
directory with this user ID unless the -d option has also
been used.
-r server_root Specifies the Netshare root.
-s server_name Indicates the name of the Enterprise Server you are
currently configuring for Netshare.
[-a] Creates Netshare home directories for all users that are
marked as licensed.
[-l] Marks all users as licensed Netshare users.