Apple Xsan 2 - Manual (Page 97)

Chapter 6 Manage clients and users 97
3 Choose Local Only from the Home Folder pop-up menu.
If you don’t see a Home Folder pop-up menu above the Groups field, all users have
local home folders. The Home Folder pop-up menu isn’t shown unless the network
account server is configured to provide network home folders.
Configure a local home folder with Workgroup Manager:
1 Open Workgroup Manager and authenticate to your SAN’s Open Directory master.
If the computer you’re using has Mac OS X Lion Server but doesn’t have Workgroup
Manager, you can install it. Workgroup Manager is available for Lion Server as part
of the Server Admin Tools, which you can download from the AppleCare Support
Downloads website at www.apple.com/support/downloads/.
2 Click the Users tab, select a user, and click Home.
3 If /Users appears in the list of home locations, select it and click Save.
If /Users isn’t in the list, click the Add button (+), and then enter the following in the
Full Path field (replacing shortname with the user’s short name):
/Users/shortname
Leave all other fields blank, click OK, and then click Save.
The user’s home folder is created on the client the first time the user logs in.
Control client and user access
To control access to information on SAN volumes, you can:
Use the Finder’s Get Info window to apply basic access controls to a file or folder. Â
Use Xsan Admin or the Server app to apply a full set of access control list restrictions. Â
Use Xsan Admin to unmount a SAN volume from selected client computers Â
(volume-level control).
Remove a client from a SAN (SAN-level control).
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Control file and folder access using the Finder
To restrict access to a file or folder on an Xsan volume, you can use the Get Info
window in the Finder.
Assign permissions using the Finder:
In a Finder window, select the file or folder, choose File > Get Info, and look under
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Sharing & Permissions.
Control file and folder access using Xsan Admin
To restrict user access to specific items on a SAN volume, you can use Xsan Admin to
adjust permissions using standard POSIX permissions and access control lists (ACLs).