Administrator Guide

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Using SMB Home Shares
The FluidFS cluster enables you to create a share for a user that is limited to that user. For example, when a user "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.
Automatic Creation of Home Share Folders
Automatic creation of home share folders automatically creates folders for users when they log in for the first time. The
ownership of the home share is automatically assigned to the user, and the domain administrator is automatically granted full
access to the share.
About this task
This procedure enables the automatic creation of home share folders.
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select SMB Shares.
4. In the SMB Shares panel, click Edit SMB Home Share Settings.
The Set SMB Home Share dialog box opens.
5. Select the Enabled checkbox for the SMB Home Share option.
6. Select the Enabled checkbox for Create Folder.
7. Click OK.
Manual Creation of Home Share Folders
Manual creation of home share folders can be accomplished with a script (user-created), batch file, or PowerShell cmdlet that
is written by the storage administrator. Alternatively, the storage administrator can manually create these folders to provide
stronger access controls to the storage administrator. The storage administrator can decide whether some or all of the users
will be given a home share.
Managing ACLs on an SMB Share Folder
When a new share root folder is created from Storage Manager on NTFS and mixed security styles, the folder is assigned the
default ACL. You can view and modify the owner, SACL, and DACL for root folders of SMB shares using Storage Manager.
Configure SMB Home Shares
Enable SMB home shares to create a share for a client that is limited to that particular client.
Steps
1. Create an SMB share containing a user-based directory tree:
a. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
b. Click the File System tab.
c. In the File System view, select SMB Shares.
d. In the SMB Shares panel, click Edit SMB Home Share Settings.
The Set SMB Home Share dialog box opens.
e. Select the Enabled checkbox for the SMB Home Share option.
f. Click Change in the NAS Volume area.
The Select NAS Volume dialog box opens.
g. Select the NAS volume on which the SMB home shares are located and click OK.
h. In the Initial path field, specify a folder that is the root of all the users folders (for example, /users).
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