Never say never or how to reset portable home directory creation setting ?

[rhartlein]

On 10.4.2 Server we experienced the dialog asking a mobile user if he wanted to create a portable home directory on a given machine never remembering the users choice “Never”.

10.4.3 fixed the problem for us (I don’t know if it’s 10.4.3 client or server because we upgraded them at the same time).

As we want to reenable the creation of portable home directories on some of our machines, we found thant we don’t seem to be able to reset the “never” setting anywhere.

Does anybody know where to find the preference which is been set when a mobile user clicks on the “never” button during login ?

[rhartlein]

I just found how to solve my problem :

Here is the answer:

When clicking “Never” in the dialog asking whether to create a portable home directory or not, MCX creates a preference-file (or an entry in the file if it exists already) in /Library on the client machine called com.apple.MCX.plist

This file contains an entry for each mobile user having chosen to never create a portable home directory on the machine. The key is like

MobileAccountNeverAsk-username

in my case it was

Mobile AccountNeverAsk-mobiletest

the value is 1.

After deleting the file, the dialog reappeared at login, and I could successfully create a portable home directory on the machine.

I guess deleting the key/value pair concerning the mobile user without deleting the whole plist file would have done it also.

[Anonymous]

Override the “Never” setting by holding down the option key at login. It’s much easier than deleting a file.

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