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Mac OS X Server: Setting up multiple locations for home directories.Goal:Simplify end of the school year server cleanup by separating student home directories into multiple automount share points according to graduation class year. Example: All seniors home directories located in a 2006 share point, juniors in a 2007 share point, etc. At the end of the school year the graduating class share point is archived and deleted. I also setup user id’s to include the graduation year. You can then sort by User ID and remove the entire graduating class at once. Example: Alan Doe UID 2005001, Barb Doe UID 2005002, etc. Problem: Setting up OS X Server with 12+ automount share points causes the client machines to hang at login/logout or a blue screen at startup. Workgroup Manager doesn’t allow you to select a nested folder for home directory location. Solution: Use the Inspector in Workgroup Manager to alter the default settings. The following suggestion was submitted by Phillip Royer and is working for me so far (see note below):
Following these instructions I setup a User Preset for each grade level, then import one grade level at a time using the appropriate preset.
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