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Re: Lessons learned and not learned from setting up Netinfo, sharing, etc.

Subject: Re: Lessons learned and not learned from setting up Netinfo, sharing, etc.
From: "Gary W. Zuker" <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:06:38 -0500

My problem now is with automounting nonstandard located homes shares...
I'd like to be able to move the home shares to the second hard drive, as it helps separate things and has a higher storage capacity.

--- I have over a thousand HomeFolders scattered various places. Some are simply on a secondary disk drive in a "users" folder. Others are on external Raid arrays, buried many folders deep from the share-point (which requires the Advanced setting for Home Folder). And other are on Win2000Servers, accessed via AFP.

1) The simplest case is on a secondary disk, in a top-level folder and share-point called "users". First, you must UN-share the system-default "Users" folder on the boot-disk. The new "users" folder on the secondary disk is owned by the admin with RWE privs, the group "staff" has read-only, and Everyone has Read-only. This folder is shared via AFP (and SMB) with NO Guest-access and Inherit-permissions. It is Auto-mounted Dynamic to the netinfo/root parent.

In a typical user's record in WorkGroupManager (WGM), the HomeFolder is done using the "Network" settings and you simply pick from the list of available auto-mounted shares. In my case the url listed for the users home is "afp://private.psy.utexas.edu/users".

2) If the user's Home Folder is to be located in a folder not directly below an auto-mounted share-point, then you must use the "Advanced" button when specifying their Home in WGM. In my case I wanted one top-level share point, which will serve 26 separate classes, each with 50 students. I didn't want 26 separate share points, and I didn't want 1,200 home folders all jammed up in a single folder. So there is a hierarchy of folders, to organize it.

The tricky part is getting the Advanced Home-Folder settings in WGM to work. I have found, by trial and error, that it must be set up in such a way that it looks quite wrong, and you think it shouldn't work. But it does. And if you set it up the way that looks correct, it won't work. [Hint to Apple. Please fix this !]

In this example, the server's AFPname is "class", and its DNSname is "class.psy.utexas.edu". I created an Auto-mounted sharepoint called "Psy418", which happens to be several layers off the root of an external raid disk. As above, I use AFP and SMB shares, NO-GUEST access. Read-Only access for Everyone.

The user's name is "a01" , and their WGM Advanced HomeFolder settings are:

Server/Share URL= afp://class.psy.utexas.edu/Psy418

Path= Psy418/Agroup/Homefoldersa01

Home= /Network/Servers/class/Volumes/ClassRAID/ClassFolders/Psy418/Agroup/HomeFolders/a01

It's the middle setting that's weird. The Path is missing a slash "/" just before the user's name at the end. Logic would make you think the Path should really be "Psy418/Agroup/HomeFolders/a01", but it simply doesn't work.

Hope this helps...

Now with the share I want everyone to have read write access too, I'd like it to either show up in the level right under the network folder, but neither dynamic mounting or static mounting to a specific location makes that happen, one must browse several levels deep, as in network/ servers/ server name/server drive/volumes/share name. Kind of unwieldly. I'd like it to just be right there on the desktop, be able to make an alias to it on the desktop. Either is good, but just having it easier to find for my users would be great.

I'd like to be able to move the home shares to the second hard drive, as it helps separate things and has a higher storage capacity.

Any pointers would be appreciated. I've pretty much tried all the combinations of settings I can dream up.

Thanks.

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Matt Nelson, A+, Network +, MCP
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