Allan,
1. In the current versions of the OS, Mobile Accounts create and use
a locally stored account and home folder. Home Sync must be enabled
to sync files to the network home location. With ADmitMac, you also
have the option of a local home without a local Directory Services
account, but network home backup must be handled manually.
2. With a Mobile Account and Home Sync, the first sync is always
slow, but any subsequent syncs will be as fast as your network copy
speed allows. There will be things to consider like time settings
that can affect it, but the sync will only deal with modified files,
so it should be pretty quick.
3. If you are using a network home, the need for local cache will
depend on the application. The OS will use the local disk for /tmp,
but some applications may still use ~/tmp. If you are using a Local
home or a Mobile Account, this won't be a problem.
4. If you are working on a network home folder, Mail and Outlook can
still be a problem. Local home folders and Mobile Accounts won't be
a problem at all.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Jim Thomas
Senior Support Engineer
Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
email@hidden
On 6/5/14 3:11 PM, Marcus, Allan B
wrote:
Hello,
I'm starting to work on documenting binding our Macs to our
AD. We also use a NetApp for network home directories. I'm also
the owner of a shiny new MacBook Pro, so I'm looking at options
for mobile users, including portable home directories. I looked
into PHDs a few years back and ran into some insurmountable (no
pun intended) issues. Can anyone tell me if these are resolved?
- It appears when connected to the network, the Mac used the
network home as the "live" home dir, and then synced to the
local home dir. This always struck me as silly since using the
local home dir is much faster, and the Mac should back up
periodically to the network dir. Does the PHD still default to
the network dir, or is the live home directory the local dir?
Is there an option or default to set to specify which should
be the "blessed" home dir?
- Syncing was really slow, as compared to say, rsync. Back
when PHDs were announced, a 1GB home dir was large. Now a
30-50 GB home dir (or larger) is common. Is syncing reasonable
fast?
- Also, when using a network home I had to add some MCX
redirections for user cache and an Adobe cache folder. Is that
still needed, or is Mavricks smart enough to use the local
drive for cache. If it is, how is that done now?
- Finally, Mail and Outlook are both very very chatty to the
disk. When local all is good. When the user's library folder
is on a network drive, not so good. I solved this by putting
the user's Library folder local and symlinking it in the home
dir. I'm hoping PHDs can solve this for me (see point 1
above). If not, any best practice suggestions?
--
Thanks,
Allan Marcus
Chief IT Architect
Los Alamos National Laboratory
505-667-5666
If you always do what you always did, you will always get
what you always got. [Albert Einstein]
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