Mobile Accounts

[Craigster]

Has anyone else tried this? It is mentioned that it will synchronize the home directory if you have been offline to the network home directory once you come back online..
It doesn’t seem to be doing this automatically. Am I missing something with this feature?

[TheToe]

[quote:1781bcbb4d=”MacTroll”]So, you’re not missing a magic button, what you want isn’t part of the feature set for this. It’s one of the things I’ve been toying around with how to automate, though.[/quote:1781bcbb4d]
Any luck automating this Joel? I’ve been looking into various Syncing softwares, but haven’t been very impressed. I’d like to have something transparent to the end-user, and so far haven’t found a relaible solution.

[Anonymous]

I finally got around to testing this out

You are asked the first time if you want to continue to use a network home directory on this mac or to create a mobile account which is really just a special local account.

Once you create the mobile account you can never go back to the network home directory account. Unless of course you go to another Mac where the above repeats itself.

The major problem I had was the user I tested out was an admin user. The mobile account did not carry this over. I could enable it in the Accounts preference pane.

Joel has the right idea with Rsync and a login/logout hook. That would work great and be transparent. I’m just testing this out and using Folder Synchronizer. It’s working great except it’s not keeping the Finder or Dock .plist file. The Dock is not big deal since I use DockFun!. The Finder I don’t care about since I use Path Finder, Everything else works great.

I’m using the mobile account on my PowerBook. I sync with Folder Synchronizer on my network home folder. That way I can login on any other machine in the building and have a fairly up to date version of my home folder.

[wrivet]

Is there a way to disable this feature (where users are prompted to create mobile accounts)? I administer a school with WIN AD and MAC iBooks that authenticate thru the 2003 DC.

Any help is appreciated…

Willy

[wrivet]

[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] There is a check box in WGM to not ask the user, just create a mobile account for them.

However, this isn’t available to you if you are just using the AD Plugin without using Open Directory or extending the AD schema.[/QUOTE]

Great info but I don’t think I want to play with the AD Schema at this time although I will keep it in mind.

Willy

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