Moving OD Mounted Home Directories

[gw1500se]

I have some users that are relocating to a remote site. At that location there is an OD replica server. I also copied the users’ home directory to that server. Finally I changed the users’ home directory in WGM to point to the correct location. The problem is that in spite of WGM telling me the home directories are in the correct location, when the user logs in, OD still mounts the home directory from the master which is where it was before the move. What else do I need to do to get the home directories pointed to the correct server? TIA.

[EA]

One trick that might help is to set the users’ home directories to “None” in Workgroup Manager, save that, then set the new home directory, then save that. Although I have never seen it documented in print, I have gotten this advice in dealings with Apple in the past. Somewhat nonsensical, but it seems to work.

You can also check on the OD Replica to make sure that the home directory record is pointing to the right place on the replica using Workgroup Manager or dscl on the command line:

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /Users/$i NFSHomeDirectory

where $i is the username in question.

[gw1500se]

Hallelujah!!! 😀

I’ve been fighting with this problem for months and it has been driving me nuts. I owe you an adult beverage of your choice.

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