[UniMacTech] portable home folders

[rick barrett]

Hi all.

I'm running a Mac 10.4.8 OD server on an all mac site for 460 users  
using networked home folders in a fully managed environment. My new  
boss bought 20 dell laptops and wanted them connected to the network  
for 20 specific users to access their existing AFP home folders.

I've set up the server as a windows PDC, created a profiles folder in  
the users folder, created a logon script to mount their home folders  
and the groups share and set the path for the profiles. Created a  
windows test user and logged in to the server. User gets  
authenticated, gets the network home folder and group share but no  
profiles yet as I had no time to set it up.

Now my boss wants to let these users take the laptops home, create  
files, then come back and logon to the server and auto sync to their  
network home directories. Now I need portable home folders.

This can be done for mac laptops but how do I do this for windows  
laptops? Also these 20 users will still need to be able to login to  
macs.

If this can't be done then I'll have to install a Windows server and  
run an OD-AD configuration. I also run the risk of losing 100 macs.

Any ideas anyone?

thanks

rick