Roaming profiles without a server

Aug 07, '03 09:39:00AM

Contributed by: renny

While setting up a Mac in the lounge room for internet surfing, I discovered a way to have roaming profiles without the need for an OS X server.

I started by creating an account on the new box. This account has an automatic mount to my main Mac. With this done, I then created symbolic links between the new account and some major folders within my account folder on the main machine:

I am now able to sit at this Mac in the lounge room and have my documents, mail, calendar, and Safari information at hand without worrying about version control.

[robg adds:This is all the information that was supplied with the hint, so here's a bit more info on symbolic links. The format of the symbolic link command is ln -s target link_name. So in this case, I believe the command on the lounge room Mac would have looked like this:
  ln -s /Volumes/main_mac/Users/user_name/Documents ~/Documents
Repeat for each different item to be linked, and if the folder exists already, you would probably want to delete it first. Of course, I may be wrong, and I haven't tested this one...]

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