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Panther Experiances with this hint
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Oct 23, '03 10:55:25PM

Panther has some issues with home folders on volumes other then the boot disk.

this is what i have observed with panther over the past couple of days:
When there is NO GUI session logged in, the only volumes mounted are your boot volume (duh) and the volume that hosts your the copy of Mac OS 9 set for classic (huh?)

When you log in, it goes ahead and mounts all your volumes were ever you told them to go in fstab (or the default /Volumes) and you can usually observe this in the finder as it starts with just your 2 volumes in the disks column and then all your other volumes stream in.

Here is the worst part. when the last GUI session logs out, (don't forget fast user switching) all your disks (save classic and boot) unmount again!

At first I though it only mounted the disks after the finder loaded (as i usually wind up with a default dock, default finder window locations and preferences, and an empty desktop) but sometimes I get my custom dock, finder window placement, and desktop icons as it loads the settings from my Users volume.

Here are the 2 and a half workarounds that I have found:

• Set up a 2nd user account (optionally with it's home folder somewhere on your boot partition - good for troubleshooting anyway!) and ALWAYS log into that account 1st. after all your volumes mount, fast user switch to your normal account. This is the method I'm currently using.

• Log in though ssh and manually mount your users partition. that mount will stick though all logouts, but you have to do it every time you boot your computer. the draw back here is that you have to have a second computer. I'm sure you could log into >console and mount it there, but I have not tested this - in fact I haven't even tested if >console is still there, aside from a failed fast user switch.

• Setup some kind of startup item to automate the above during boot. I have no idea what the script in the startup item should be, but i do know how to set up a startup item if someone wants to help me there.

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Panther Experiances with this hint
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Nov 11, '03 11:49:52AM
and in combination with this hint, the above becomes a non-issue, and the custom mount point system is now Panther Proven! :D

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