Network Home Folders without OSX Server?

[Anonymous]

I’ve got a Mac Lab in a Windows school.

We’ve got the OSX machines set up to login by authenticating to the AD Server then mount the user’s Network Home Folder on the Desktop. Can we actually have them use that as their Home Folder (instead of the local one) without using OSX Server?

[Anonymous]

MacTroll wrote:

yes you can use the Windows home, from the windows server, as you OSX home.

man dsconfigad

for more info.

Any chance you can explain? The man pages are a little over my head.

Also, any chance this can be done via the GUI?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

On a 10.3.3. client, in terminal, as root user, type “dsconfigad -localhome disable” (no quotations).

Your Mac’s Home folders (Desktop, Docs, Library, etc) will be setup within your Windows home directory.

Pretty neat!

Waz

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