I would like to have a "hybrid" arrangement, where users have local accounts on their OS X machines, but also have accounts on the server, which they can use for backing-up their files, and so they can log-in (to their server account) from any OS X machine in our group.
Based on normal "Unix" practice, if the account on the server has the same Username and UID, then users (who are logged in to the account on their local machine) should also have full access to their home directory on the server even though they are technically "guests", but this is not the case.
I suspect this is a problem of AFP (which doesn't recognize who a guest really is) versus NFS (which does). I could switch to NFS serving, but does anyone have any ideas how this can be made to work via AFP?
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