Creation of Home Directories -

Hi,

which doc are you referring to ?

The VNX homedir white paper was recently updated and has the most important steps.

http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/H2283_EMC_Celerra_Home_Directory_-_A_Detailed_Review.pdf

Its actually one of the most detailed white papers I have seen

check what the owner,  ACLs and inheritence is on the homenas directory is - either with Windows or server_cifssupport

Of course there still could a general config problem or bug - which is a classic case for a support case then.

The forum isnt a replacement for regular customer service by phone, EMail or chat

Or maybe you arent testing it correctly - you really need to login as the user and then connect to the path \\nashome1\HOME\  in order to get the individual homedir assigned.

If you also need Administrator accces you have to change the registry setting.

by default only the owner of the homedir gets access

If you cannot access C$ then your account most likely isnt a member of the CIFS servers local administrator group.

Nothing to do with homedirs but it doesnt make life easier.

get your domain admins to add you or use a special param before joining the CIFS server to the domain (see the forum search)

Rainer

Thanks Rainer , I have created another CISF server with a test share and when I created users to that from AD and map via \\filesrvr01\test\%username , it creats user directories under \\filesrvr01\test\userdir but doesnt create \\filesrvr01\HOME\%username . When I use \\filesrvr01\HOME\%username% it says network name cannot be found ?

Please advise in my EMC Plugin the DB looks like domain:*:/test:create 700 .

Thanks for help.

Also where would you check the CIFS servers local administrator group , I have already changed the reg key to 1.

Please read and understand the white paper

Auto-create means the Celerra/VNX will create the directory – not AD

HOME doesn’t exist – it’s a virtual share name that gets connected to a different directory for each user

To test you NEED to really login is as user and map
filesrv\HOME
filesrv\HOME> - see page 24

Rainer

Just like with any other CIFS (Windows) server – get a domain admin to administer localgroups via the normal MMC

Awesome Rainer , I will check it out will advise you .

Here is teh issue we are experience - our scope is to map users to \\cifsserver(filesrvr01\HOME\ -> all users.

1. Our DB in EMC MMC shows like this - domain * \filesrvr1\ auto create.

2. When we map users to \\filesrvr01\HOME\%username% . AD is complaining about HOME non existent , but it will let us map to a cifs share - common for eg .\\filesrvr01\common\%username%.

3. In our case we cannot see HOME any where on celerra , its not exported , I guess for us to map to HOME it should be shared and mounted and accessible ?If its virtual it should let us map , homedir is enabled but cannot map to HOME?

Thanks

PLEASE read and understand the white paper

You do NOT map to
filesrvr01\HOME\%username%
filesrvr01\HOME\%25username%25> - you need to map to
filesrvr01\HOME
filesrvr01\HOME>

That’s the whole point of using the VNX homedir feature

Thanks Rainer , in page 19 they talk about CIFS HOME dir getting exported when we enable homdir DB using MMC , if thats the case should we see server_export VDM01 ( home exported)? .

Ad we have windows 2008 AD ( DC) SO IT WILL NOT TAKE \\cifsserver\HOME ( we need to pass %username) , I may be wrong but that works.

May be we have to reboot our DM and try again?

filesrv01 is my CISF server /filesrvr1 is the mount point .

You are saying the HOME is exported and we can see it via some commands in celerra ? It will not let me map to \\filesrvr01\home - Thats the step I am missing .

You will a "home" share on the vnx/celerra but the user should be able to map to
filesrvr01\HOME and get to his home dir

Don't know if it's related to the problem but in your rule (DB) it says filesrvr1 where in the remaining of your post it says filesrvr01

Claude

Hi Suresh,

Please open live chat session if you are still facing issues configuring Home Dir

Thanks,

Sameer

Sameer , How can open live chat ?

please follow this primus article "emc281319"

Thanks and Regards

Sameer Kulkarni

I tried to find it but cannot ?

Sameer , I got EMC online doing research on this issue , DELL spent more than a week but none can figure out why we cannot map to \\filesrvr01\HOME -> %username% ?

I have one question to all the gents who seem to have implemented this -> When we enabled homedir via EMC mmc plugin , we see homedir enaled (/.etc/home) , but should there be an exported HOME share ( virtual created) some where ? How can we check for the existense ?