Administrator Guide

Automatic Creation of Home Share Folders
Automatic creation of home share folders automatically creates folders for users when they logs in for the rst 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. To enable automatic creation of home share folders:
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, select SMB Shares.
3. In the right pane, click Edit SMB Home Share Settings. The Set SMB Home Share dialog box appears.
4. Select the Enabled check box labeled SMB Home Share.
5. Select the Enabled check box for Automatic folder creation.
6. Click OK.
Manual Creation of Home Share Folders
Creation of home share folders can be accomplished with a script (user-created), batch le, 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.
Congure SMB Home Shares
Enable SMB home shares to create a share for a client that is limited to that particular client.
1. Create an SMB share containing a user-based directory tree:
a. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
b. Click the File System tab, select SMB Shares.
c. In the right pane, click Edit SMB Home Share Setting. The Set SMB Home Share dialog box appears.
d. Select the Enabled check box for the SMB Home Share option.
e. Click Change in the NAS Volume area. The Select NAS Volume dialog box appears.
f. Select the NAS volume on which the SMB home shares are located and click OK.
g. In the Initial path eld, specify a folder that is the root of all the users’ folders, for example /users.
NOTE: A folder name must be less than 100 characters long and cannot contain the following characters: >, ", \,
|, ?, and *
• To type an existing folder, type the path to the folder in the Initial path eld.
• To browse to an existing folder:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box appears and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume. Locate
and select the folder, and click OK.
– To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
– To view the parent folders of a particular folder, click Up.
• To browse existing directories and create a new folder:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box appears and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume.
Navigate to the folder in which to create the new folder and click Create Folder. The Create Folder dialog box appears.
In the Folder Name eld, type a name for the folder, then click OK to close the Create Folder dialog box. Select the
new folder and click OK.
– To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
FluidFS NAS Volumes, Shares, and Exports
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