Network Home Directories for all
Written by Chris Tangora   
Monday, 07 July 2008
icon-apple-terminal.pngFound this handy "how-to" and thought I would pass it along as it seems like it would come in handy for people with multiple Macs in their home.  A few command line edits and you can have a network home directory for each user.   You still have to make a local user account on each machine, but it will pull the home directory from another Mac (via NFS).  While this doesn't make much sense for a lab or small office, this would work well for a home with a few networked Macs.  It uses bonjour for host resolution and NFS for mounting.


From Protecht.com

On the machine that you want to automount directories on, execute:

dscl -change Local/Default/Users/kate NFSHomeDirectory /Users/kate /home/kate

dscl will change the home directory of kate from the normal /Users/kate to /home/kate. This step readies for the use of the automounter.

Edit /etc/auto_home to look like:

#
# Automounter map for /home
#
+auto_home # Use directory service
kate dining-room.local:/Users/kate

If it works for you, stop by Protecht.com and say thanks.




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