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Re: Tip on creating home directories with OSX Server

On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Daniel Bowen wrote:

Just a tip - don't change the Primary Group for users if you want to create a home directory or network home directory for them on a server. The default group is 20, with it different, the Create Home Directories button in Workgroup Manager wouldn't do anything, nor would the command line 'createhomedir -a' give any response.

It works fine here. We use 1200 for students, and 1300 for teachers. The Create Home Directories button works fine here.

???

Obviously there's some difference which makes it work on my network and not on yours. I have no clue what the difference would be.

I'm curious about something, though. If you create a brand new user, and don't create a home directory, and you set the user's primary group ID to some group other than 20, when the user logs in, will they get a home directory auto-created?

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Richard MacLemale
Mac Network Admin
http://homepage.mac.com/richardmaclemale
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