So what we already have set up in User Manager for Domains as mapping drive X to \filer\home won't be affected, but we can change it to \filer%username% to go directly to the folder.

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 15:20 To: toasters Subject: Re: questions regarding setting up cifs.home_dir

With all the discussion about setting up the home directories on the

filer,

I have a few questions...

On NOW, it says that if you set up home directories the only folders that

a

user will be able to see will be their own. Does this apply to administrator as well. Will the administrator be able to see and access

all

home directories? Currently we have set aside an area of the filer for

home

directories, but the whole company is not using them. So basically we are just mapping the home directory to a drive in User Manager for Domains.

So

my question is, if I start using cifs.home_dir, does anyone foresee any problems. I don't want to have a situation where my users can't access their data, right?

I don't see any problem here. We have it set up both ways on our filers. We have a "HOME" share at the top of our home directory tree and if you attach to \filer\HOME then you have to "drill down" to whatever directory you want. And we also provide the cifs.home_dir directory so that you can attach to \filer\username and go straight to your own directory.

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

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support