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I’ve got a situation where I only want to have three different user accounts, with up to about three people using each one at any time. This is because these people need to be able to share their own sets of files (and have the same Fonts folder).
I have this set up so that they can log in simulatenously and all share the same network home folder. It seems to work very smoothly until you try to open an application, say Word or Indesign, on more than one computer at once. It opens fine on the first computer, but won’t run on the second computer logged in with the same account. I’m suspecting this has something to do with the application’s preferences file in the Library already being in use.
Is what I’m trying to do not possible? My only goals are to have people be able to log in from any computer and have the same Documents and Fonts folder, which is why doing simultaneous login of the same user made sense.
That’s kinda what I figured.
What’s the best way to point distinct users’ documents folders to the same place? Can I just make a symlink? Somehow it seems like it’s going to be more complicated than that. I have to do the same for the Fonts folder, too.
I set up the Fonts and Documents folder to be shared and automounted to /private/automounts/Network/Library/Fonts and /private/automounts/Network/Library/Documents. Then I made symlinks from these locations to ~/Library/Fonts and ~/Documents. The symlinks work, but the automounts don’t. I’ll troubleshoot that some more tomorrow.
Ooo, I just found your article on troubleshooting automounts. It has a lot of good info in it that should be helpful.
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