most of the old-timers already know this, but Colin points out that this is hard to find in the documentation...for scripting and such, using the share-name CIFS.HOMEDIR will cause the filer to connect "you" with "your" CIFS home directory (if such a homedir exists and if no actual share named CIFS.HOMEDIR exists). for Ontap 6.0 or above, the share name ~ (tilde) also works.

for example, net use * \filer\cifs.homedir will connect me to \filer\joe-user if I am logged on as joe-user, or will connect me to \filer\Administrator if I am logged on as Administrator, and so on.

in your place, I would create a Dfs entry like this \DfsServer\Dfsroot\filerHome --> \filer\cifs.homedir or like this (if using Ontap 6.0 or above) \DfsServer\Dfsroot\filerhome --> \filer~

"cifs.homedir" and "~" are mapped by the filer to "my CIFS homedir" (if such a homedir exists).

Jim Uren, who hasn't tried this himself.

(actually, I've now tried this and can say that after a full 12 seconds of testing, it seems to work)

-----Original Message----- From: Colin Eric Johnson [mailto:colinj@ccs.neu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:24 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: microsoft dfs and cifs.homedir

So I'm wondering if anyone is using microsofts dfs and the cifs.homedir functionality on their netapp together?

I'd like to be able to point my users homedirs (Win2k) at a dfs share and from their direct them to \netapp\username but it's not clear if I can make this work. it would be nice becuase then if/when we decide we need a new/different netapp I only have to change the name once and not for each user.

I'm not really convinced that I can make this work but I thought I might ask.

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