If you make absolute links (beginning with a leading slash) you need to consider how the filer is going to resolve those since the UNIX exports and CIFS shares may be coming from different paths. The /etc/symlink.translations file is used to help the filer interpret absolute symbolic links.

If pchome is full of links to another directory on the filer and you use relative links you should be fine. You also need to enable symlinks with the cifs.symlinks.enable option.

/vol/vol0/pchome bob -> ../home_systems/bob jim -> ../home_software/jim

/vol/vol0/home_systems bob

/vol/vol0/home_software jim

Dennis Haag

-----Original Message----- From: Moshe Linzer [mailto:moshel@taux01.nsc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:09 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Cc: David.Lockwood@benettonformula.com Subject: Re: Filer (F740) with CIFS and NT Terminal Server Edition (Metaframe)

We are actually doing this slightly differently. The filer started out as pure Unix, so everything is using Unix security. When we added the Winframe servers (soon to move to TSE or Win2000), I found that I was able to make a CIFS Home directory on the filer:

options cifs.home_dir /pchomes

Then from the /pchomes directory, make symbolic links to the users actual (unix) home directory on the filer:

bob -> /homes_systems/bob jim -> /homes_software/jim

Now the user's home dir will be visible under TSE as \filer\userid (assuming the same userids on NT and Unix). You can setup the user's profile on TSE to mount this path automatically upon login. The beauty is that no unix home dirs have to be changed, and no additional mounts or automounts are needed.

Moshe

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Has anybody had any experience using a filer with NT Terminal Server Edition

and Metaframe. I want to be able to have users UNIX (HP-UX 10.20) home directories on the filer and for the user to also be able to access that data from their Terminal Server (Metaframe 1.8) session.

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