Apple share home users directory

[srivoallan]

Hi,

I create a home users directory on FreeNAS and assign it to my user but I don't see it in finder. I only see my public share drive?

Thanks,

 

[srivoallan]

I can't figure out where is the option to enable and see the home directory volume for afp.

If I go into the /usr/local/etc/AppleVolumes.default file and add ~ then it work but I have to do it after each reboot.

Thanks for help

 

[fracai]

Have you created any AFP shares?

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_(AFP)_Shares

 

[srivoallan]

Yes I can't see that sare but I can't see the home directory of my user who is on that share?

 

[fracai]

You can't see the share? Or you can?

If it's just the home directory that you can't see, it sounds like a permissions issue. Or maybe your user folder is set to be invisible. Or maybe even it's in different location than what you shared. Can you check those?

 

[srivoallan]

I can see the share but not the home directory assign to the user.

 

[fracai]

Do you just have the one share? Or are you individually sharing each user home as well? I had a problem with multiple shares showing up that was cleared by restarting the AFP service. I had then previously been connecting to afp://freenas-box, but thereafter connected to afp://freenas-box/share1 and afp://freenas-box/share2. The only other suggestion that I can think of is to check the path that you're sharing and the paths of the home folders. Make sure they're within your shared path. Oh, also check the users that are allowed to connect to the shares.

 

[srivoallan]

I actually use a ubuntu server as an AFP server and time machine. In my ubuntu box I edited my self the

Code:

AppleVolumes.default

file. When you put the ~ the Home Directory for the user appear in finder beside the other share directory on the server.

 

[fracai]

OK, I think your issue is that you haven't shared the home folders from the FreeNAS GUI. While you can edit the file manually, this will be rewritten every time you boot. Possibly every time you restart the server. And does this also require that you remount the boot volume as writeable? That's generally not a good idea.

Go back into the AFP configuration and add your home folder as another share and it should show up.

 

[srivoallan]

type in the shell

Code:

echo '~' >> /usr/local/etc/AppleVolumes.default

and you will understand what I want.

Cheers,

 

[JaimieV]

That's what fracai means - that works on Ubuntu, but on FreeNAS the AppleVolumes.default file gets recreated from the GUI's database (I think) on every boot. So you have to share the home folder from the GUI.

 

[srivoallan]

I'm surprise there is no checkbox for that like for the CIFS configuration!

 

[JaimieV]

Heh - indeed. Raise a note about it in the feature requests forum?

To be fair, it's pretty rare for Macs to be using remote user profiles so I'm not too surprised if it's a bit low priority.