topic Re: Automate Creation of User Home Directory Shares in ONTAP Discussions

Automate Creation of User Home Directory Shares

shocko — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:53:19 GMT

I'm looking automate the creation of user home directory shares on my OnTap 9.3 cluster. Initially I went down the route of exposing the root of the CIFS volume as users$ (locked down to admins of course) then using a Powershell script to create the user folder then modify the DACL/SACL and ownership. This worked well but I was wondering if there is a API I could leverage within OnTap to do this?

Re: Automate Creation of User Home Directory Shares

RossC — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:49:18 GMT

Hi @shocko

This section of our ONTAP Docs might help you out here - https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/smb-admin/add-home-directory-share-task.html

It speaks to what options you have for add home directories dynamically and manually.

Hope this helps!

Re: Automate Creation of User Home Directory Shares

shocko — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:22:07 GMT

Thanks @RossC . I'm not clear though on which config results in the actual creation of a new user share though? It seems to outline how to create the root location and the share search path (~%d~%w for example) but it seems you still have the create the folder for the user underneath.

Re: Automate Creation of User Home Directory Shares

RossC — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:22:19 GMT

Hi @shocko

Some of the follow-up articles in the same section might help,

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/smb-admin/create-home-directory-config-w-d-variables-task.html

If you're still not sure from a configuration standpoint on how to handle this, please consider reaching out to your local NetApp partner or Sales Team and they can help provide you some advice.