Understanding "Home" Shares

[gabsd]

I am trying to understand the use of "Use as home share" option when creating a share.
I have user datasets in /mnt/orange/users. Let's say I have 2 users:
/mnt/orange/users/john
/mnt/orange/users/mary

I want john and mary to have access to each other's files. How do I create the shares?
I created a SMB share /mnt/orange/users. I left the "Use as home share" box unchecked. What is the point of the "use as home share option"? Am I missing some super cool advantage by not using it?

 

[anodos]

I am trying to understand the use of "Use as home share" option when creating a share.
I have user datasets in /mnt/orange/users. Let's say I have 2 users:
/mnt/orange/users/john
/mnt/orange/users/mary

I want john and mary to have access to each other's files. How do I create the shares?
I created a SMB share /mnt/orange/users. I left the "Use as home share" box unchecked. What is the point of the "use as home share option"? Am I missing some super cool advantage by not using it?

If you want them to have access to each others files, then don't create as a homes share. Think of an environment with 1,000 users. With a properly configured homes share, when a new users connects the FreeNAS server will automatically create a new home directory for them and present them with a dynamic share. This means that in an AD environment, you can set a GPO to automatically map "\\server\homes" to your user's z: drive. When they log in to their windows client, they can just click on their "z" drive and have their own personal storage location that no one else can access.