Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 164)

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To open an account, click the Account button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the user’s account resides. To edit the home directory information,
click the lock to be authenticated, then select the user in the user list.
2 Click the Home tab, then select Advanced.
3 In the Server/Share Point URL field, enter the full URL to an existing share point.
For example, enter “AFP://server.example.com/Homes”. Make sure that the share point has
been set up as an automount.
4 In the Path field, enter the path from the share point to the home directory if there is one.
Any directories you enter must exist.
For example, if the share point is Homes, you might enter Teachers/SecondGrade
5 In the Home field, enter the full path to the home directory.
For example, /Network/Servers/server.example.com/Homes/Teachers/SecondGrade/Smith.
If the home directory share point you select is an AFP share point on Mac OS X Server, the
home directory is created automatically when the user logs in if it does not already exist; the
home directory is named after the user’s short name (the first short name if the user has
multiple short names). If it is an NFS share point, you must create the home directory and its
subfolders manually.
Setting Disk Quotas
You can limit the disk space a user can consume to store files he or she owns in the partition
where his home directory resides.
This quota does not apply to the home directory share point or to the home directory, but to
the entire partition within which the home directory share point and the home directory
reside. Therefore when a user places files into another user’s folder, it can have implications
on the user’s disk quota:
m When you copy a file to a user’s AFP drop box, the owner of the drop box becomes the
owner of the file.
m In NFS, however, when you copy a file to another folder, you remain the owner and the
copy operation decrements your disk quota on a particular partition.
To set up a home directory share point disk quota using Workgroup Manager:
1 In Workgroup Manager, open the account you want to work with if it is not already open.
To open an account, click the Account button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the user’s account resides. To edit the disk quota, click the lock to
be authenticated, then select the user in the user list.
2 Click the Home tab.