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# Partially Shared Home - Automatically Link Files in Home - Admin Guide
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Shared homes create a set of problems depending on how much a software can handle running multiple instances of the same software, maybe with different version, on different hosts, probably at the same time.
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Still it is useful to have certain tool settings always with you.
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Thus we suggest to have per default a local home drive `base::local_homes: true`, but having only selectively shared software configuration.
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That configuration needs then to be on a file share, best the home drive (U:).
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To ensure the tools find their configuration at the expected place, symlinks need automatically to be created which point to the shared version.
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On the homde drive (U:) therein is also the personal configuration file of this feature (`linux_home_links.yaml` or `.linux_home_links.yaml`).
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The mountpoints can be found in `~/network-drives`.
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The `U:` drive is there named `home`, while the rest keeps their original share name.
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This feature is enabled by default on workstation type systems starting RHEL9.
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It can be controlled in Hiera with:
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```
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user_session::automatic_links_in_home: true
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```
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To the [User Guide](../../../user-guide/partially_shared_home).
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This features depends on the ["Windows Drives in Home Directory" feature](windows_drives_in_home).
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Note this does not work for RHEL7.
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