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Microns
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Sep 19, 2004, 07:14 PM
 
Hi Everyone,

I've just remapped the home directories for the users on a box running Panther 10.3.5 to a nice fast LVD U2SCSI drive. I used NetInfo to alter the absolute path of each users home directory to a directory called Users on the new drive. When anyone logs in locally (not across the network) everything works great.

The problem comes when we login from another computer. In that case the old Home directory is mounted. I'm thinking there is more NetInfo dirty work to be done in Sharing or Mounts (both?) but I need a resource to get started.

There is some discussion of related things at these links:

information about using symlinks:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html

And this link: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hlight=netinfo

Lead me to these at MacOShints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...10325102750788
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...10619195610633
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40429091024304

There is also this thread:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...t=sharing+home

And this nice software:
http://hornware.com/sharepoints/

And others...

Close but not "the answer". Book and web recommendations?

Thanks!

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