Leopard Server’s Built in Home Redirector

[trice]

While this feature is really cool and so much less of a headache then scripting it, has anyone run into the problem where the individual user folders do not get created in the tmp folder on seemingly identical machines? For instance if this preference is set when a user logs in on one 10.4.11 machine a folder gets created in the tmp folder with their UID and all the appropriate sub folders. On a machine, same model, updates, etc, those folders do not get created and therefore many programs will not run correctly or at all. I know this is not a new issue and has presented itself when using other redirection programs, just wondering if anyone found a solution?

tom

[trice]

It did work on some Tiger machines. The only difference I saw was that in Leopard, the folders in the tmp directory got created with the user’s shortname while in Tiger they got created with the user’s UID. Obviously in order to set this up, it had to be done from a Leopard Client. This problem doesn’t seem new to this feature either. For example if anyone has used Server Cleanup by Marc Garbenas, (great little piece of software by the way) then they might be familiar with this problem. For whatever reason on seemingly identical Tiger machines sometimes individual folders will get created in the tmp folder and sometimes they will not. Wondering if anyone knew of any rhyme or reason.

tom

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