HOMES 3.06.08

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In Brief

A utility for (re)creation and deletion of home directories.

Vitals

Updated:	16 Mar 2007
File Size:	2.42 MB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/Homes30608.zip
Home Page:	http://www.hbware.com
Publisher:	Hans Boone

Disclaimer

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Details

You can use the program to create new home directories, or use the program for re-creation of the HOME DIRECTORY attribute in the NDS after a migration, and so on.

The program has a few different user selection options, e.g.: Context, Group, or LDIF file and more..

You can select if you want to create the NDS home attribute or the HOME.DIRECTORY itself (or both), and you can set the directory attributes, trustee rights, volume-space restrictions or directory quotas or ownership for all files in a HOME DIRECTORY (especially useful after a migration).

..The program can also mass remove home directories..

Other features of the program:

• CVS import.
• Set/Clear Default server of a user.
• Alias support in context search.
• Conditionally set the UserSpace/directory quota's.

See this Cool Solutions article.

There is also an extended version of this program (MassUser). That version is not free.

HOMES 3.06.08:

New option added:

• The time a hint text shows can be set on the settings tab (as requested in the user comments).
• The default show time is set to 5 seconds.

HOMES 3.04.02:

Bug fix: There is a bug in the function "Use Volume/Path from below" in combination with the %strstr, %endstr etc.
The path for the first user was correctly evaluated but for all other users the path was wrong.

Three new functions added to the function list.

%lower(attribute)
%upper(attribute)
%lowerstrstr(attribute,length)       will result in a lowercase start substring.

DO NOT use function in functions! So no

%strtstr(%substr(attribute,start,end),length)

This will be supported in a new version.

Bug fix: Regular expressions.
In some case the program forced the full directory path to lowercase. The case is now preserved.

HOMES 3.03.30 new features:

• Mapping file. You can create home directories based on the context of the user.
• New layout, so there is more room for the log-file and options.
• Some bug fixes.

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Reader Comments

• Just what I needed ( ALL options are useful ), thanks a lot !
• Great Tool for when you need to upgrade home volume from Traditional to NSS. You can recreate the attributes in seconds!
• This is a sweet tool!
• !!!!!!!!!!!! M U ST H A V E !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very great and useful tool. Timesaver.
• We just lost an NSS volume and had to recreate it, and this tool saved us from having to manually fix everyone's home directory! Kudos to you good sir!
• Perfect tool - right what I searched for so long!
• WOW!! This saved me a ton of work. My favorite part was that it was able to limit the size on each of the home directories. This is great since you can't select multiple objects and set this with ConsoleOne(at least that I could find)
• Great Tool. If you are using this you might want to look at checkvis utility if you are having nss problems too. thanks again
• Should be a 10 we just love it!
• Just great, useful, timesaver, lifesaver, nifty,love it, simple, reliable, free (worth a fortune in timesaving ;)
• this saved me hours of time...... thx
• still fantastic !
• Great utility.
• After unsuccessfully pouring over LDIF syntax for 2 hours, this utility created home directories with a few clicks. Awesome! Highly recommended!
• Nice work, more like this one!
• Great help when installing clustering or whenever you have to delete volume objects.
• Haven't tried it yet, but I can think of almost thousands of times I wished for a util like this.
• Great, great, great!!!
• Very nice, worked for me as soon i put the needed replicas on the server hosting the master of ROOT.
• Great Tool !!
• Someone send this man a cigar - no make that a box of cigars!
• This is the best
• Workes great!
• Very nice - thanks!
• This is fantastic!!!! ... saved me HOURS of work!!! .. Awesome tool!!
• Best Cool Tool I've found. Useful, and saves tons of time . Just wish the hover hints wouldn't disappear so quickly...not enough time to read them before they go away.