@ tlarkin, Thanks for your ideas and help ! 🙂
[b]concerning solution1:[/b]
We want automount enabled for the share point, because those users are logging into the client machines using portable home directories (mobile accounts). Without the the automount enabled, we lose the syncing and we aren’t able to allow new user accounts to create their mobile accounts on those machines.
So disabling automount is out.
[b]concerning solution2:[/b]
These are indeed for home folders. Can you give me more details on your idea (I’m a noob on this). Where can I learn more about user templates and images to understand your suggestion? How do I detect what change in path? What symbolic link in /Volumes/Users (did you mean /Volumes/users ?) are you suggesting?
We want to ensure that the mobile accounts (portable home directories) on the client machines continue to work of course; As things stand, when user1 logs into mac1 his home is “/Users/user1”. This works aok. This is a local cache of his network home folder. When syncing happens, /Volumes/users is temporarily mounted, the sync is made, and the volume is unmounted again.
But when user1 logs into the compute server (grkapmac8) the /Volumes/arve/users is mounted [i]even though the local /Volumes/arve (which contains users/) is already mounted[/i].
It’s not a problem for user1, but the new mount is done in the name of user1 so all of the other users logged into the compute server lose rw access to their folder – unhappy campers.
Can you tell me more about your idea?
Shawn
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