RE: Multiple cifs.homedir paths (Was: RE: Optimal volume size) - toasters

29 Sep 2000


      Hi Gang,
As it turns out, tilde "~' support does not exist in Data ONTAP 6.0. Sorry for
the misinformation.
Regards,
Paul Benn
-----Original Message-----
From: Benn, Paul 
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:24 AM
To: 'Todd C. Merrill'; Brookes, Matt
Cc: 'Chris Lamb'; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Multiple cifs.homedir paths (Was: RE: Optimal volume size)
We have a two more new features related to CIFS shares that you might find
useful:
1) Data ONTAP now provides tilde "~" support, so you can specify:
\<filer's net BIOS name>~<your login name> to access or map to your home
directory or....
\<filer's net BIOS name>~<someone else's login name> to access or map to
someone else's home directory.
2) There's a new option called "cifs.home_dir_namestyle" and it has three
parameters: ntname, domain or mapped. This option allows you to specify the
style of user name which is used to determine the home directory.
ntname: Uses the NT user name to look up the home directory (same as 5.3.x)
domain: Picks up the user's user AND domain name and maps to appropriate
subdirectory. For this, the directories beneath the root home directory would be
named the same as your NT domains. The user directories would then reside under
the appropriate domain directory.
mapped: This is used to map to home directories that are named the same as the
users' UNIX login names.
Regards,
Paul Benn
Network Appliance
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd C. Merrill [mailto:tmerrill@mathworks.com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 7:42 AM
To: Brookes, Matt
Cc: 'Chris Lamb'; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Multiple cifs.homedir paths (Was: RE: Optimal volume size)
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Brookes, Matt wrote:
...
No, you weren't dreaming! :) 6.0 supports multiple cifs home directory paths:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel60/html/sag/cifs19.htm
And a few other neat tricks worth checking out if you use this feature.
That is fan-fscking-tastic!  Thanks very much for a feature I
never even though to ask for, but we will certainly use now that we know
about it.
Is it coincidence or deliberate that NetApp now recommends
that volume sizes do not exceed ~500 GB?  ;)
And, Chris, I hope you got some sleep last night.  You were
bobbing and weaving all over the place.
Until next time...
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