Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Access Appliance
- Section II. Configuring Access Appliance
- Managing users
- Configuring the network
- Configuring authentication services
- Configuring user authentication using digital certificates or smart cards
- Section III. Managing Access Appliance storage
- Configuring storage
- Managing disks
- Access Appliance as an iSCSI target
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Access Appliance file access services
- Configuring the NFS server
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Access Appliance as a CIFS server
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- About setting trusted domains
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- About managing local users and groups
- Using Access Appliance as an Object Store server
- Configuring the NFS server
- Section V. Managing Access Appliance security
- Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- About alert management
- Appliance log files
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Considerations for creating a file system
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VIII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- About the NFS shares
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- About the CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- Integrating Access Appliance with Data Insight
- Section IX. Managing Access Appliance storage services
- Configuring episodic replication
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Configuring continuous replication
- How Access Appliance continuous replication works
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- Configuring episodic replication
- Section X. Reference
About managing home directories
You can use Access Appliance to store the home directories of CIFS users.
The home directory share name is identical to the Access Appliance user name. When Access Appliance receives a new CIFS connection request, it checks if the requested share is one of the ordinary exported shares. If it is not, Access Appliance checks if the requested share name is the name of an existing Access Appliance user (either local user or domain user, depending on the current mode of operation). If a match is found, it means that the received connection request is for a home directory share.
You can access your home directory share the same way you access the file system ordinary shares. A user can connect only to his or her own home directory.
Note:
The internal directories structure of home directory file systems is maintained by Access Appliance. It is recommended not to use a file system as a homedirfs that has been used by a normal share in the past or vice versa.
Note:
The CIFS> homedir commands are supported only from the Access Appliance command-line interface.