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Re: Home directories

Hi Surajit,

In Trinity we use more or less the same setup as you, but our
LDAP servers are on Linux, and instead of AFS, we use SMB to a
windows file server. 90% of the time we do not have any problems -
the 2 issues for us where (a) increasing the disk quota to students,
and (b) network connectivity.

The Library folder in each users home dir can easily get quite big taking
up 20% or more of their quota. Deleting or not saving internet cache
files was important. The whole setup is very dependent on the network
though. Any network problems, and users get the spinning beachball.

I suspect, as others have mentioned, that the problem is a buggy OpenAFS
and Panther finder interaction. This will probably be fixed. If not, you
could swicth to SMB, or other filesystem. If you don't control the actual
filestorage server, you could mount it to a MacOSX or Linux box as AFS,
then re-export it from there as SMB etc to the client Macs. Of course
permissions could be interesting.

Good Luck,
Paul
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