Many years later, I know,.. but did your experience ever show your idea to have been bad?
We have an AFP server on Server1 and another on Server2 (a compute server) hooked into a RAID based XSAN for the users directory. I’ve got server1 allowing automounting so that mobile accounts (portable home directories) work on the client machines.
Everything is hunky-dory EXCEPT when a user tries to log into Server2. At that point, Server2 tries to mount the already-mounted /Volumes/team1/users folder (it’s already mounted on /Volumes/team1 go figure). This doesn’t cause user1 any problem… because he owns the mount-point. But all other users logged into the compute server lose their access to their files (the mount point is owned by user1 until he logs out).
Did you run into this?
What did you do?
A more succinct description of the problem is here:
https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=26009