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Dell FluidFS NAS Solutions Administrator's Guide

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Creating Home Shares

If creating a CIFS share with 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 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 administrator can manually create these folders. This is to provide stronger access controls to the administrator. The administrator can either manually determine the accounts to be given a home share, or can write a script that automatically generates the folders, for some or all of the users in a particular Active Directory or local user database.
  • NOTE: The following procedure must be completed only by a domain administrator who is also the NAS storage administrator.

To create the CIFS home share folders manually:

  1. In the NAS Manager, verify that the system is joined to your Active Directory.
  2. If you are using Active Directory, in NAS Manager, select Cluster Management > CIFS Configuration and ensure that Authenticate users' identity via Active Directory and local users database is selected.
  3. In the NAS Manager, create a general access share that is the root of all the users folders. For example, create a general access share with share name users, at directory /users, and select the option to create the folder if not already present.
  4. Using Windows Explorer, mount the users share as the CIFS local administrator.
  5. In the security setting of the mounted share, click on Advanced, and change owner to Domain Admins, or the specific Domain Administrator or Storage Administrator account you wish to have ownership. This is the account that creates the folders (either using a user create script or manually) for each users home share.
  6. Disconnect or unmount the user share, and remount it as an account that has ownership of it, as previously set (as a Domain Admin, Storage Admin, or specific account ownership was set to).
  7. In the NAS Manager, create a new CIFS share, and select the share type CIFS share containing a user-based directory tree .
  8. Previously, the general access share titled users was created at the path /users. In Path template, enter /users and then select if you want the users folders to take the form of /users/username or /users/domain/username.
  9. Click Save Changes.
  10. Using Windows Explorer, for each user that you wish to be given a home share, create a folder for them that conforms to the Path template: you selected in the previous step. This can be done manually or with a user create script.

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