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Using Networked Home Directories with Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the there's-no-place-like-$HOME dept.

trouser asks: "I work in a small office using Macs running Mac OS X and PCs running Linux (Debian). There's no problem sharing files between the machines using Samba, Netatalk, and FTP. However, we want to set the Macs up so that at login they mount home directories from one of the Linux boxes so that we get the same home directory no matter which machine we login on. I've read a little about doing this using NetInfo but I gather with LDAP being included with Jaguar that there might be other options now. Any clues?"

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  1. LAPD? by Cliff · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please pardon this Mac-illiterate, but would someone please tell me (and any other confused souls) what "LAPD" means (asside from the obvious Los Angeles references, please).

    1. Re:LAPD? by Cliff · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Editor, heal thyself!

      I'm guessing that the submittor made a typo and that it's "LDAP" not "LAPD". The text in the story has been changed, so this comment is unnecessary.

      Nothing to see here, move along!

  2. whatever you do.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do not attempt to execute Linux binary files on OSX or vice/versa.

    the results ain't pretty.