Hello all-
I'd like to know the best way to handle network users who have a home directory on a file server. As it stands right now, we have them logging into bound iMacs with their network accounts, their home directory gets pushed down to the machine. This has caused issues with using certain applications (I'm looking at you Acrobat! *glare*), and causes the network Library/Printers folder to become overpopulated with printers each and every time they print.
To fix this, I was going to enable the "Force local home directory on startup disk", this seems to alleviate the printers folder, and the finnicky applications. In my haste, I made the mistake of pushing this setting out to our assistant to the head of school, it seemed easy enough to have her save her work into the network folders on her dock, but that is a little too cumbersome for her.
What I'm asking basically is, what do you guys do for situations like this? Also, for the "force local..." option, is there a way to have a process run at logout that would copy the contents of the local desktop/documents folders and move them to the appropriate network folder on the file server.
Thanks
Robert Bingham.
wearin too many hats right now....