Just to clarify and to understand what is happening here:
1. Create a dataset on the volume called "docs".
2. Create a folder on the dataset "docs" called "users" with root.
3. Mount "users" folder as a CIFS share with root.
4. In folder "users" create a new folder for each user on the network who wants a home directory.
5. Create a user with corresponding user name and select the folder created in step 4 as their home directory.
6. From Windows Explorer add that user and set "full control" on the folder representing their name.
7. When all users have been added in this fashion, remove the share created in step 3.
Is this pretty much it?
Thanks,
JayNil
You're creating local users on the FreeNAS box, and you also wanted your specific user (lets call that user Jay) to have full access to all the other users files, right?
If so, then;
1. Create the CIFS dataset
2. Create a folder under that dataset called "users"
3. Mount "users" as a CIFS share with root.
4. From Windows Explorer select properties on the "users" share, add Jay and give them Full-Control.
5. In FreeNAS GUI, create the other users, and in the field for Home Directory put: /mnt/volume-name/CIFSdataset/users
If you keep the "users" share (which would make digging into the other user's directory easier), I'd suggest A) un-checking the "Browsable to Network Clients" box, and B) entering an IP in the "Hosts Allows" box.
It's the same general idea that you noted, but with less "rise and repeat"
