Style

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This is the default value, which is a pre-Data ONTAP 6.0 naming style. Before Version 6.0, Data ONTAP used the user’s Windows name for directory matching. Therefore, the pre-6.0 naming style and the Windows naming style are similar. There are differences between these styles, however. Before Data ONTAP 6.0, if you wanted home directories to reside in various volumes, you had to specify symbolic links as home directories in the home directory path. Because Data ONTAP 6.0 and later supports home directories in various volumes, it is less likely that you need to use symbolic links as home directory names.

Data ONTAP 6.0 and later continues to support symbolic links as home directory names for backward compatibility. If you specify a home directory naming style, a symbolic link works only if the symbolic link points to a directory in the home directory path.

If you do not specify a home directory naming style, Data ONTAP uses the pre-6.0 style, which is for backward compatibility and is useful if you want Data ONTAP to match a directory with a user in the same way that it did before 6.0.

Leave the name style blank if you do not want to specify a name style and want Data ONTAP to match home directories to users the same way it did before Data ONTAP 6.0.

ntname

Data ONTAP searches for the directory whose name matches the user's Windows name. Specifically, the PC user name, without the domain name, is in lowercase letters and the home directory is searched for an entry of that name.

If you have created a list of user home directories in the Home Directories field, the home directories are searched for the entry in the order in which they appear in the list. The search is case-insensitive.

Select the ntname style if the home directories have the same names as the Windows user names.

domain

The domain of the user is also used to find the user's home directory. The directory paths are searched for a directory with the domain name (case-insensitive) that contains a directory with the PC user name (also case-insensitive).

For example, if domain\john attempts to connect to \\filer\john, the home directories listed are searched for domain\john. If this directory is not found, an error is returned.

Select the domain style if you want to use the domain name in addition to the Windows user name to search for the home directory.

mapped

The PC user name is mapped to a UNIX user name (and user ID) using the usermap.cfg file, if present, and the usual (existing) mapping rules. If the PC user name does not map to a UNIX user name, the default UNIX user name is used (pcuser by default). The /etc/passwd file (or NIS passwd file) entry for the user is used to identify the user's home directory.

Because the home directory path is likely to be specified in a UNIX client path format (for example,  /u/users/john, where /u/users is an NFS mount point), a translation file similar to the /etc/symlinks.translations file is needed to map it to a storage system relative path or, possibly, a UNC name.

Select the mapped style if the home directories have the UNIX user names as specified in the usermap.cfg file.

hidden

Users connect to their home directories using their Windows user name with a dollar sign appended to it (name$), and Data ONTAP searches for a directory that matches the Windows user name (name).

Select the hidden style if you want to use a Windows user name with a dollar sign ($) appended to it to initiate a search for a home directory with the same name as the Windows user name.