"Todd C. Merrill" wrote:
jn Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Moshe Linzer wrote:
Jeffrey Krueger wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Eli Lopez wrote:
BTW, you can create a soft link on the filer called QTREE1 pointing to /vol/vol1/QTREE1 and mount using the link name.
Cool! I didn't know the NetApp could internally resolve symlinks for NFS/CIFS exports/shares and still give us the "right stuff" from rquotad and what not.
Yeah, the same trick allows us to share our CIFS homedirs under a single root, without actually moving the user's home directory.
Whoa. What's this? I knew symlinks if resolved on the samefilesystem on a filer work correctly under CIFS, but this seems different. You can symlink across *volumes* on the same filer and it is transparent to NFS and CIFS clients???
Yes, the difference is that you are SHARING THE SYMLINK, not putting a symlink inside a share. So without quoting all of Chris' email, you can set your cifs homedir to a directory full of symlinks (userid -> /path/to/homedir), and each user will get a share to his own homedir upon login! Cool undocumented feature.
And it appears to be true that some 6.X release will have multiple homedir paths, but this is still more versatile!
Moshe