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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: zebrac[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u]

Why not just go direct to the Sun box for the NFS homes and leave the reshare bit out?

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It doesn’t seem to be that simple. In order to HAVE a WGM controlled userhome (from what I understand) you need to reshare the NFS export from the Solaris box – so that WGM can “see” it and do anything useful with it.

Maybe I am all mixed up on the matter?

Help/suggestions would be appreciated.[/p][/QUOTE]

I was running into this same issue at home- I was running OS X server on my old iBook, which obviously didn’t have enough drive space to hold my homes. My linux box had all the drive space on it, and an NFS share- which is where I wanted the homes to be.

Resharing is dumb, stupid, slow, and barely even works. Don’t do it. Ever. Don’t even accept that it exists.

I did some digging in the WGM Inspector thingy (You can turn it on in Preferences) and found that when you make something network automountable, it creates a ‘mount record’ for it. You can find this record via the inspector tab and chosing ‘mounts’ in the drop down.

Once you have one as a model, you can modify it to point at your desired host / share, which doesn’t have to be an OS X Server. In my case it was a linux box but I assume it could be anything.

Setting up a linux machine to authenticate against the OS X server’s LDAP is fairly easy too (and covered elsewhere, so I’ll skip it) and therefore the UIDs and GIDs will match up when you’re logged into your linux box. Your home on your Mac now = your home on your *nix. It works, Very, very well.

I’ve used this method with AFP also, with success, using a linux box with netatalk sharing things out. I prefer NFS, but try AFP if you want to. It could be an easy way to make use of some older Mac hardware. . . just setup your share on it, and network automount it with a custom mount record.

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