We did the migration from an NT fileserver about a year ago.  Granted, we didn't go from NFS to CIFS, but maybe our experience will help a little.

The way we define the user's homedir is by throwing the UNC in the Home Directory field in User Mangler, then do a 'net use H: /home' in the logon script. 

When we migrated, we had our webmaster take 5 seconds out of his busy day to write a quick ADSI script that tore through the SAM of the DCs and simply changed \\NTfileserver\username$ to \\filer\username. 

Then we used robocopy (NT Res kit) to move everything and their permissions to the new filer.  If you're going from NFS to NTFS, you'll probably have to script something.

For quotas, we use this line in /etc/quotas:
* user@/vol/volX/users 3G
(Yeah, I know, 3G for every user is huge.)  I think this feature requires ONTAP 6.1, so buyer beware.

If you have multiple NT domains, you might want to look at caveats of using the CIFS HOMEDIR option.  It's nice not to have 1500 separate shares, but may be prohibitive if you have the same username for different users in multiple domains.

Good luck!

-john

John Witham
Sr. Data Networking Engineer
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: neil lehrer [mailto:nlehrer@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:30 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: adding cifs users homedirs and setting ownership

hi,

we are going from nfs, unix on solaris to cifs, ntfs
on filer.  how do folks do the normal creation of new
users homedir[we currently map our h: drive from the
login script, we don't set the homedir in the users
domain account].

from nt gui, from cmdline, using script?  and, for
quota purposes, how do you set the new users's homedir
ownership and acl, in ntfs?  na_chown and some  other
util?  i need to set this up for our user support
folks and am looking for best ways.

thanks

=====
neil lehrer

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