Re-route Home Directories

[#1]

I know there is a way to re-route the home directories (in a local home
directory environment) to a partition, but I am not sure what all that
entails. Is anyone doing this, and if so, could you let me know how you
are going about this?

thanks!

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lauren

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LAUREN NICHOLAS
User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus

Center for Information Technology - CIT

Moravian College

adjunct prof | graphic design & music
ph. 610 861 1633
lpnicholas at moravian.edu

[#2]

Lauren,

We are doing this. Here is what we do.

We bind our clients to AD and we have force local home directory on startup drive checked.
We script out to change the users folder to our Data partition and rename the users folder on the boot drive to users.old From there we script out a sym link to the users document folder so that it is linked back to our server. All other items related to the user folder are local to the machine on the second partition.
I can send the script if you want to see it.

Kathie

[#3]

Lauren,

We are doing this. Here is what we do.

We bind our clients to AD and we have force local home directory on
startup drive checked.

We script out to change the users folder to our Data partition and
rename the users folder on the boot drive to users.old

--missing content--

it is linked back to our server. All other items related to the user
folder are local to the machine on the second partition.

I can send the script if you want to see it.

Kathie

[#4]

I'd like to see the script, too. We are using AD, with local homes, but have Homes mapped in AD properties, too.

Nathaniel Lindley

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Information Technology
Saint Paul Public Schools
Saint Paul, Minnesota
nathaniel.lindley at spps.org
phone: 651-248-6861

[#5]

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On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Chad Brewer wrote:
Kathie Iorizzo
Lower School Technician
The Latin School of Chicago
kiorizzo at latinschool.org
312.582.6136

[#6]

Beware Symlinks when it comes to Home Directories! I know of at least two industry standard applications that do not understand symlinks and will refuse to run up when encountering them trying to link to a home directory.

We have our script write an fstab that mounts the Data partition directly at /Users. Has the same effect as a symlink but more transparent to applications.

I can provide examples if anybody wants them...

Cheers
Dan