PHD’s and laptops/desktops

[wjlyerly]

I’d like to use portable home directories for my laptop users, but not my desktop users (who’ll just use networked home dirs). The problem I’m having is with users who have a laptop and a desktop machine. I’d like them to log into the desktop with a network home dir and a PHD on the laptop.

If I log into the desktop machine and choose ‘Never’ when it asks to create a PHD, it refuses to remember. It asks every time I log in. Is it busted or am I doing something stupid?

In WGM, I have the Synchronization Tab under mobility set to Always. Is there, instead, a way to do it only once? Or should I just toggle it on and then off again when I set up a laptop?

jay

[wjlyerly]

Great. That seems to handle it nicely. What’s the preference order here? If I set mobility options (or any preference) for group, computer list and user, how do they get applied. I would imagine user prefs get top priority, followed by group and then computer list. Is that right? Can I disable PHD syncing for a user and have it apply to all machines?

thanks.

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