Hi

My auth problem is solved ;-) thanks to Adam Fox Adam.Fox@netapp.com

Now I have another one ...

Is it possible to create a mapping file to map home directories and allow user shortcuts to point to the right home directory as it is possible under UNIX to do with NIS maps

I explain

I would like windows user could maps drive as follows

\toaster\loginname

the mapping file (on the toaster) would looks like

\user\somedir\anotherdir\anotherdir\loginname \loginame ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ real home directory shortcut

The best way would be to use directly NIS automount map

Check out this filer option

options cifs.home_dir dirname

With this option, you can create an implicit share for each user. Just create a home directory for each user in dirname with the same name as the user. So when user kuser1 maps to

\filer\kuser1

he maps to dirname/kuser1

This essentially forces you to put all home directories under dirname. However, netapp filers follow symlinks, so you can use a symlink instead of an actual directory. This is what we do.

On a NFS client, cd to the cifs.home_dir directory and create your symlinks like this:

ln -s /vol/vol0/users/k/kuser1 kuser1 ln -s /vol/vol1/home/x/xuser2 xuser2

etc.

The symlinks must "make sense" to the filer since the filer follows them.

There are a couple restrictions. A user can only map his own directory, i.e., to map \filer\userA you must login as userA.

You cannot cross filers using this method. If you have multiple filers, each filer has its own cifs.home_dir directory and the user must know which filer to attach to.

Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support