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118 Chapter 7 Setting Up Home Folders
11 Click Protocol Options.
12 In AFP, select “Share this item using AFP” and “Allow AFP guest access.”
When you enable guest access, it is enabled for all home folders in the share point.
By default, in home folders guests can only access /Public and /Sites folders. When a
guest browses the home folder server, they can see who has home folders on that
server but are restricted to opening guest-access-enabled folders.
Guests can also use ~user-short-name/Public to access a user’s /Public folder.
13 To prevent SMB access to the share point, in SMB, deselect “Share this item using SMB.”
14 To prevent FTP access to the share point, in FTP, deselect “Share this item using FTP.”
15 To prevent NFS access to the share point, in NFS, deselect “Export this item and its
contents to.”
16 Click OK to close the Protocol Options dialog and then click Save.
From the Command Line
You can also set up a share point using the sharing command in Terminal. For more
information, see the file services chapter of Command-Line Administration.
Setting Up an Automountable NFS Share Point for Home Folders
Although AFP is the preferred protocol for accessing home folders (because of the
security it offers), you can use Server Admin to set up a network NFS share point for
home folders.
NFS share points can be used for home folders of users defined in shared directory
domains, such as an Open Directory domain or an Active Directory domain.
The NFS share point must be automountable—that is, it must have a network mount
record in the directory domain where the user account resides.
An automountable share point ensures that the computer can locate the NFS share
point and home folder. It also makes the share point’s server visible in
/Network/Servers when the user logs in to a Mac OS X computer configured to access
the shared domain.
To set up an automountable NFS share point for home folders:
1 If you do not have a share point to host home folders, create one.
For instructions, see “Setting Up a Share Point” on page 116.
2 Open Server Admin and connect to the server that hosts the share point.
To connect to the server, choose Server > Connect, enter the server address in the
Address field, and then authenticate as a server administrator.
If you’re already connected, you’ll see Disconnect (instead of Connect) in the Server
menu.