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I am setting up an AppleShare IP 6.2, and I am interested in taking advantage of the new Home Directory feature. How do I set this up, and how does it work?
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The following is an excerpt from the ASIP 6.2 Tutorial found in the Tutorials folder on the AppleShare IP 6.2 CD:
"The AppleShare IP 6 administrator can create home directory folders which can contain user folders for each user. After the administrator creates the home folder and sets access privileges, a folder for a user is automatically created when the user logs in for the first time to the AppleShare file server. When the name of the user is displayed in the volume list in the Chooser, the user can log on to his own folder to save and store information. Each home directory folder can be viewed and accessed only by its owner. This automatic feature will save Administrators time in setting up individual sharepoints for each new User."
As an example, Figure 1 shows an administrator creating a share point that will contain users' home directory folders the next time each user connects to the server.
Figure 1: Privileges window.
Note: if a user has already logged on to the server prior to the creation of the home directory folder, the folder will not be created until the user's next login.
When a home directory user now connects to the server, the user is presented with the option of mounting his or her home directory. For example, let's say that the user named "Average User" has logged onto the server. In the following picture of Disks and Share Points (see Figure 2), we see that a folder named "Average User" has now been created.
Figure 2: Disks & Share Points window.
If we examine the privileges for Average User's home directory (see Figure 3), we find that Average User is the owner of the folder and has Read/Write privileges, although the administrator retains ownership of the enclosing folder:
Figure 3: Home Directory's privileges.