Best practices for hosting network home directories on workstations

[ChrisOwens]

(This is a duplicate to a question I posted in the “File Serving” area; not sure if it belonged there or here)

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=19231[/url]

I would like to set up an environment under Leopard in which each user’s home directory is hosted on his or her primary workstation, but is also accessible as a network home from other machines via afp.

What is a reasonable way to set up the directory entries so that when the user logs in on a miscellaneous machine, the home directory will auto-mount, but when he or she logs in to the primary workstation, the home directory will be available locally and the workstation won’t go nuts trying to network mount its own fileshares?

Beyond “reasonable”, what’s a standard way of doing this?

[deemery]

For what it’s worth: I have a -tiny- X Server installation (just me and my wife, 4 machines total.) On her new iMac, I originally had a network-hosted home directory, but I noticed performance wasn’t what I wanted. So I converted her machine to a Mobile account (even though it never moves), and so far everything’s working fine with a substantial increase in performance.

dave

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: ChrisOwens[/u][p]
(This is a duplicate to a question I posted in the “File Serving” area; not sure if it belonged there or here)

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=19231[/url]

I would like to set up an environment under Leopard in which each user’s home directory is hosted on his or her primary workstation, but is also accessible as a network home from other machines via afp.

What is a reasonable way to set up the directory entries so that when the user logs in on a miscellaneous machine, the home directory will auto-mount, but when he or she logs in to the primary workstation, the home directory will be available locally and the workstation won’t go nuts trying to network mount its own fileshares?

Beyond “reasonable”, what’s a standard way of doing this?
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It is called mobility. All you need to do is setup a network share and set it up to automount. Once done, select that user and click on preferences in workgroup manager. You will find an option for mobility, that will do what you are wanting it to.

David

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