
Chapter 7 Setting Up Home Directories 117
Creating a Custom Home Directory
In Workgroup Manager, you can customize a user’s home directory settings. You’ll want
to customize home directory settings when:
• You want the user’s home directory to reside in directories not immediately
below the home directory share point. For example, you may want to organize
home directories into several subdirectories within a share point. If Homes is the
home directory share point, you may want to place teacher home directories in
Homes/Teachers and student home directories in Homes/Students.
• You want to specify a home directory name different from the user’s first short name.
You can use Workgroup Manager to define a custom home directory for a user whose
account is stored in a server’s local directory domain or in a shared directory domain
accessible from the server you are using. The shared directory domain can be the LDAP
directory of an Open Directory master or another read/write directory domain.
You can also use Workgroup Manager to review home directory information in any
accessible read-only directory domain.
To create a custom home directory using Workgroup Manager:
1 Make sure the share point exists and is configured correctly.
The share point for a local user account’s home directory should reside in an AFP share
point on the server where the user’s accounts resides. This share point does not have to
be automountable (it does not require a network mount record).
The share point for the home directory of a user account in a shared directory domain
can reside in any AFP or NFS share point that the user’s computer can access. The share
point must be automountable—it must have a network mount record in the directory.
For instructions, see “Setting Up an Automountable AFP Share Point for
Home Directories” on page 119 or “Setting Up an Automountable NFS or SMB Share
Point for Home Directories” on page 120.
2 If you want the home directory to reside beneath a folder under the share point, use
the Finder to create all the folders in the path between the share point and where the
home directory will reside.
3 In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts and select the user account you want to work
with.
To select an account, connect to the server where the account resides. Click the small
globe above the accounts list and open the directory domain where the user account
is stored. Click the Users button and select the user.
4 To be authenticated, click the lock.
5 Click Home to set up the selected user’s home directory.
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