Using Networked Home Directories with Mac OS X? 74
trouser asks: "I work in a small office using Macs running Mac OS X and PCs running Linux (Debian). There's no problem sharing files between the machines using Samba, Netatalk, and FTP. However, we want to set the Macs up so that at login they mount home directories from one of the Linux boxes so that we get the same home directory no matter which machine we login on. I've read a little about doing this using NetInfo but I gather with LDAP being included with Jaguar that there might be other options now. Any clues?"
Lots of stuff depends on HFS+ (Score:4, Interesting)
Slightly OT for those having automount issues (Score:4, Interesting)
You may have noticed that automount refuses to mount partitions on your
LABEL=(partition name as mounted under
Instead of spaces between the items use tabs -- I haven't verified if spaces work yet.
I'm not a mac user myself but my roommate struggled with this issue for quite a few hours before hitting on the solution. I figured I'd pass it along in case anyone else was struggling with it.
Tunneling Samba over SSH from OS X (Score:2, Interesting)
smb://username@localhost:tunnelport/share?WORKG
smb://username@localhost/share?WORKGROUP=wkgrp;
and many variants, but not seems to work. Any suggestions? Has anyone figured out how to override the SMB port?