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Home folder on another mac?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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We have a G4 and an iBook. My wife primarily uses the G4. I split my time on the iBook and use it at work. I'd like to set it up so that I have individual home directories on the two machines, but that my wife's iBook account looks for her Home directory on the G4.
Is this possible? Is NetInfo the answer or is it being phased out in leiu of LDAP? Are there any problems with such a setup?
kman
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Maybe you can have one OS on one machine and let the other one boot from it from the network...
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iMac G5 2.0 Ghz 20", 2 GB RAM, 400 GB, OS X 10.4.5, iPod with color screen 60 GB
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Briefly speaking:
1. Add a StartupItem to the iBook so that it mounts the G4 file server on startup. Do this with the mount -t afp afp://wifename:pass@g4.local/wifename command. Make sure you let it fail if the iBook is away from the G4.
2. Make sure the wife's user folder is mounted. Add a *new* user; call it wifename or whatever. In NetInfo Manager, change the user's home folder to the mounted home folder.
There might be a more clever way to use the LoginHook (google on this) to mount the wife's user folder only on login, rather than at boot.
But that should get you started. Note that you'll want to have a *very* stripped down home folder & set of preferences if you do this, especially over Airport!
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A perhaps better option:
A better option might be to have a normal user folder on the iBook, but replace the Library/Preferences and Documents folderes with aliases pointing to the G4.
That way, caches & local disk access will still use the local hard disk, but important preferences and documents will reside on the G4.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
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Originally posted by Mithras:
Briefly speaking:
1. Add a StartupItem to the iBook so that it mounts the G4 file server on startup. Do this with the mount -t afp afp://wifename ass@g4.local/wifename command. Make sure you let it fail if the iBook is away from the G4.
2. Make sure the wife's user folder is mounted. Add a *new* user; call it wifename or whatever. In NetInfo Manager, change the user's home folder to the mounted home folder.
There might be a more clever way to use the LoginHook (google on this) to mount the wife's user folder only on login, rather than at boot.
But that should get you started. Note that you'll want to have a *very* stripped down home folder & set of preferences if you do this, especially over Airport!
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A perhaps better option:
A better option might be to have a normal user folder on the iBook, but replace the Library/Preferences and Documents folderes with aliases pointing to the G4.
That way, caches & local disk access will still use the local hard disk, but important preferences and documents will reside on the G4.
I'd rather do that with NFS (using NFS Manager). Not quite hard.. and still works nicely. Is more transparent that way (I've put home folders on Linux machines like that)
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