How to Create a Specific Autohome Share Rule

The autohome share feature eliminates the administrative task of defining and maintaining home directory shares for each user that accesses the system through the SMB protocol. The system creates autohome shares when a user logs in, and removes them when the user logs out. This procedure describes how to configure autohome shares by adding rules to a configuration file.

For information about the smbautohome format, see Autohome Entries and the smbautohome(4) man page.

1. Become superuser, assume an equivalent role, obtain the solaris.smf.value.smb and solaris.smf.manage.smb RBAC authorizations, or use the “SMB Management” RBAC profile, which is part of the “File System Management” profile.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services. To configure a role with the Primary Administrator profile, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Edit the /etc/smbautohome file.

   An autohome entry must be on a single line in the following format:

   key	location	[container]

   1. Specify the user name in the key field.

      Usually this field is a user name, but it can also be one of the following:

      • +nsswitch – Uses the naming service to match users to home directories if no rule matches.

      • Asterisk (*) – Matches a user name to a home directory that uses the same name.

   2. Specify the location of the user's home directory in the location field.

      Specify the absolute path excluding the user name, or use one of the following substitution characters:

      • Question mark (?) – Substitutes for the first character of the user name.

      • Ampersand (&) – Substitutes for a complete user name.

      For example, the following rule maps to /home/a/amy:

      amy /home/?/&

      For more information about the path, see Autohome Shares.