Keeping local home folder when logging on to Open Directory

[TDT]

Hi all

I was wondering whether anyone’s managed to keep using local home folders when logging on to Open Directory?

Reason being the users on my network work on large image files locally before moving their work back on to the server once finished. We wouldn’t have enough storage to give users 1GB+ each purely for their home folders.

I’ve heard of one or two people who have done it with some clever tweeking, but I have no contact with them to ask how they managed it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Simon

[Spongy]

Yes, you can have the network user use a home folders using OD – this is especially good, if as you say, your users are dealing with large files and/or you are on a 100-base-t network (like me :()…
How you do it: set up your users with Workgroup Manager as normal. Go to the Home area and chose /Users. That will force the user to have a local home on whatever machine he logs in on. If /Users isn’t there, click on the + button and enter ‘/Users/[short name of the user]. Click OK.
Next time anyone logs into that account, they should be using the home folder on their computer.

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