Dell NX3600, NX3500, NX3610 manual Using Cifs Home Shares, Configuring Cifs Home Shares

4.Click Disconnect.

The Disconnect Connection dialog box appears.

5.Click OK.

Using CIFS Home Shares

The FluidFS cluster enables you to create a share per client that is limited to that client. For example, when a client "jsmith" connects to the FluidFS cluster, jsmith will be presented with any available general shares, as well as a share labeled "jsmith" that is visible only to jsmith.

When creating a CIFS share with a user‐based directory structure (home share), the share will not be accessible initially. This is because all directories for each user must be created by the storage administrator. This can be accomplished with a script (user‐created script), batch file, or PowerShell cmdlet that is written by the storage administrator. Alternatively, the storage administrator can manually create these folders. This is to provide stricter access controls to the storage administrator. The storage administrator can decide whether some or all of the users will be given a home share.

Configuring CIFS Home Shares

Enable CIFS home shares to create a share per client that is limited to that client.

1.Create a CIFS share that is the root of all the users’ folders.

For example, create a CIFS share named users, at directory /users.

2.Give ownership of the CIFS share to the account that will create the folders (either using a user created script or manually) for each user’s home share.

a)Using Windows Explorer, connect to the CIFS share.

b)In the security setting of the CIFS share, click on Advanced, and change the owner to Domain Admins, a specific Domain Administrator, or a FluidFS cluster administrator account.

c)Disconnect from the CIFS share and reconnect to it as the account that has ownership of it, as previously set in step (b).

3.Create a CIFS share containing a user‐based directory tree.

a)Click the NAS Volumes tab on the left.

b)Click the All CIFS Shares tab on the top.

c)In the Home Shares pane, click .

d)Click Modify Home Shares Policy.

The Modify Home Shares Policy dialog box appears.

e)Click Enable home shares.

The home shares details are displayed.

f)Click the […] button to the right of the NAS volume field. The NAS Volume Browser opens.

g)Select the NAS volume on which the CIFS home shares are located and click OK.

h)Click the […] button to the right of the Initial path field. The Folder Browser opens.

i)Browse to the path created in step (1), for example /users, and click OK.

j)Select the template for the users’ home folders:

*Initial path, domain name, and user name

*Initial path and user name

k)Click OK.

4.Using Windows Explorer, for each user to whom you want to assign a home share, create a folder that conforms to the Folder Template you selected in step (h).

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