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Defining an Advanced Home Directory for NFS Access
In Workgroup Manager, you can customize a user’s NFS home directory settings using the
Advanced home directory option. You’ll want to customize home directory settings when
m You want the user’s home directory to reside in directories not immediately below the
home directory share point. For example, you may want to organize home directories into
several subdirectories within a share point. If Homes is the home directory share point,
you may want to place teachers’ home directories in Homes/Teachers and student home
directories in Homes/Students.
m You want to specify a home directory name different from the user’s short name.
You can use Workgroup Manager to define an advanced home directory for a user whose
account is stored in a NetInfo or LDAPv3 directory domain or to review home directory
information in any directory domain accessible from the server you are using.
To create an advanced NFS 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 an automountable 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.
If you want the home directory to reside beneath a folder under the share point, also create
all the folders in the path between the share point and where the home directory will reside.
4 In Workgroup Manager, connect to the server where the folder or folders reside and click
Sharing to set up the folder you want to set up 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.
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