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kleinmatic wrote:

Thanks for all the responses so far! It seems like lots of people are doing Mobile Accounts and then syncing at logout (which is, btw, the way Windows seems to do it when OS X serves Roaming Profiles to Windows users).

Does anybody actually mount their users home directories over the network and actually serve the files live like that?

(the xserve and production machines are all going to be on a gigabit switch, btw).

I’m using NHD’s in a production environment with about 25 designers. It’s nice to let users log in from any workstation and be able to see exactly the same thing they would have on their own desk. They can also connect through VPN and get to their Home dir on the server to access their own files, even if their workstation is shut down. Work files are actually on a separate server.

Caveats: Make sure if you allow iTunes use, that you set it up to store music on the local HD (Shared folder), otherwise it will suck up all your bandwidth AND you end up backing up every user’s 20GB of music all the time.

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