[UniMacTech] portable home folders

[James Dawson]

On the windows side couldn't they create a Briefcase in their network home directory and drag files from their local drive into it and simply update the briefcase when they get back to work?

The other option is to set properties of their network drives to allow off line access which creates a local copy on their hard disk but it takes too long generally synching at start up and shut down each day.

Both of the above are windows solution relying on the client machine being windows and assuming through the magic of networking they don't understand they are talking to a network share on a mac :-)


On 5/05/08 11:40 PM, "rick barrett" <rickbarrett at dodo.com.au> wrote:



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

_______________________________________________
unimactech mailing list
unimactech at auc.edu.au
http://www.auc.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/unimactech


Kind regards,
James

James Dawson
Enterprise IT Architect
IT Services
University of New South Wales
"Knowledge by Hand and Mind"
Ph (02) 9385 3308
Mob 0430 416 612
www.its.unsw.edu.au

There are three types of people in the world.
Those who can count and those who can't