Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) - Manual (Page 159)

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To create an NFS network home directory 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 Accounts 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 Make sure that the share point for the home directory is published in the shared domain
where the user’s account resides. To set up such a share point, conduct steps 3 through 7. To
use a share point that is already correctly set up, skip to step 8.
If you want network home directories for admin users, put them on a separate drive or
partition, and make that drive or partition a share point. Regular users see share points that
administrators set up, but administrators see only volumes as share points.
Because of the way home directory disk quotas work, you may want to set up home
directory share points on a partition different from other share points. See “Setting Disk
Quotas” on page 166 for more information.
3 On the server where you want the home directory to reside, create a folder to use as the
share point if required.
4 In Workgroup Manager, connect to the server where the folder resides, and click Sharing to
set up the folder as an automountable NFS share point.
Use the All tab to select the folder.
Use the General tab to set up sharing settings. Click “Share this item and its contents.”
Specify the share point owner and group names by typing names into those fields or by
dragging names from the drawer that opens when you click Users & Groups.
Use the pop-up menus next to the fields to specify privileges. For the owner, select Read &
Write. For Group and Everyone, select Read Only.
Click Save.
5 Set up access to the share point.
Click the Protocols tab, then select “NFS Export Settings” from the pop-up list.
Check the “Export this item and its contents to” box, and make sure that Client is selected
from the pop-up menu below it.
Click Add to specify clients you want to be able to access the share point. In the text box that
appears, type the IP address or host name to add the client to the Computer list on the
Protocols tab.
Set up share point privileges. Put a check in the “Map Root user to nobody” box, and remove
any checks in the remaining boxes.
Click Save.
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