[UniMacTech] portable home folders

[rick barrett]

Thanks, I'll try the off line access first thing in the morning.

I forgot to mention that the laptops connect via our airport wireless  
network which is currently 803.11g. Hopefully our new 803.11n  
basestations should be delivered this week.

cheers

Rick
On 06/05/2008, at 12:18 AM, James Dawson wrote:

> 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
>
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