Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 161)

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Because of the way home directory disk quotas work, you may want to set up home
directory share points on a partition different from other share points. See “Setting Disk
Quotas” on page 164 for more information.
To define an NFS share point for home directories:
1 Create a folder on the server where you want the home directories to reside, and share the
folder using NFS. See Chapter 4, “Sharing,” for complete instructions on setting up NFS share
points.
2 Export the share point, use the pop-up menu to select the clients to whom you want to
export the share point, and map the “root” user to “nobody.”
3 Configure a mount record for the share point. To do so, set up the share point so it is
automounted, using NFS, in a directory domain in the search path of Mac OS X computers
that need to use it.
4 In the share point folder, manually create the home directory folder and all its subfolders for
each user.
UNIX users are accustomed to using SSH to obtain command-line access to a server. With
this kind of access, the user’s home directory isn’t mounted, and the user has only guest
access to it.
Creating Home Directory Folders
AFP home directories and their subfolders are created automatically when users first log in.
NFS home directories must be created manually within the folder that serves as the NFS
share point.
Defining a User’s Home Directory
In Workgroup Manager, use the Home tab in the user account window to work with home
directory settings for a user.
m Select Local to define a home directory on the server you are using for a user defined in a
local directory domain on that server.
m Select Network to set up a home directory for users defined in shared directory domains.
The home directory resides immediately under a share point you select from a list of
automountable share points in directory domains of the server’s search path.
m Select the Advanced option to set up a home directory that has characteristics not
available using the Local or Network options. For example, the Advanced option lets you
set up a network home directory that is not immediately below the share point.
The next four sections describe how to use the user account Home tab.
You can also use an import file to set up home directories. See “Using Import Files to Create
AFP Home Directories” on page 165 for details.