Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 163)

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Defining a Network Home Directory
In Workgroup Manager, you can set up a home directory for users defined in shared
directory domains. The home directory resides immediately under an automountable
share point.
You can use Workgroup Manager to define a network home directory for a user whose
account is stored in a NetInfo or LDAPv3 directory domain or to review home directory
information in any directory domain accessible from the server you are using.
To create a network home directory using Workgroup Manager:
1 In Workgroup Manager, open the account you want to work with if it is not already open.
To open an account, click the Account button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the user’s account resides. To edit the home directory information,
click the lock to be authenticated, then select the user in the user list.
2 Click the Home tab, then select Network.
3 Select a share point from the list, which displays all the network-visible share points in the
search path of the server you are using.
If the home directory share point you select is an AFP share point, the home directory is
created automatically when the user logs in if it does not already exist; the home directory is
named after the user’s short name (the first short name if the user has multiple short names).
If it is an NFS share point, you must create the home directory and its subfolders manually.
Defining an Advanced Home Directory
In Workgroup Manager, you can customize a user’s home directory settings using the
Advanced home directory option. You’ll want to customize home directory settings when
m You want the user’s home directory to reside in directories not immediately below the
home directory share point. For example, you may want to organize home directories into
several subdirectories within a share point. If Homes is the home directory share point,
you may want to place teachers’ home directories in Homes/Teachers and student home
directories in Homes/Students.
m You want to specify a home directory name different from the user’s short name.
You can use Workgroup Manager to define an advanced home directory for a user whose
account is stored in a NetInfo or LDAPv3 directory domain or to review home directory
information in any directory domain accessible from the server you are using.
To create an advanced home directory using Workgroup Manager:
1 In Workgroup Manager, open the account you want to work with if it is not already open.