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Re: Windows Home Directories and PDC/member servers



I forgot to mention that I made a cron job that would start and stop SMB
services nightly thinking that may help, but it did not.

Thanks
Chris

> Talking to Apple and through my own efforts there doesn't seem to be a way to
> have home directories for PC users on a domain member server. According to
> Apple home directories for PC users can only reside on the PDC/Master server?
> 
> Anyone know of a way around this? Fancy login script maybe?
> 
> What are people doing for large networks? You can't have every home directory
> on the master server!
> 
> The reason I'm going through all of this now is because our xserve has been
> crashing between 1-5 days. At this point I thinks its due to to many Windows
> users on the server at one time (50-100). So I was looking to take some of the
> load off by using another server for home directories, but I guess you can't
> do this with Windows home directories.
> 
> Is anyone out there running a PDC with a large number of Windows users logging
> in? If so is it stable and how many concurrent Windows users are logging in.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris 

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