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Recovering from a moved /Users folder
Authored by: baokhangnn on May 03, '04 01:09:47PM

I have avioded this problem by having two (2) Users/ folders. Create an admin account in the default place /Users. Then create all the users needed and move their home directories over to a second drive. Open up NetInfo Manager and change their home directory path to point to the new drive (/Volumes/***/***/etc...). If the drive name changes, then you must also change the path again. This way I always have an administrative account (zAdmin, the z is to make it last in the list of logins) just incase something goes wrong! As zAdmin you must also remember to setup ownership and permissions for the second drive like the orginal /Users path!

Actually, we have a machine were there is a harddrive for each of the five users. Each of their home directories is on thier own drive (mix of firewire and IDE). Plus one for the OS & Apps! Works great!

-Bao



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Recovering from a moved /Users folder
Authored by: Pelix on May 04, '04 06:05:11AM

Hi
I've got exactly the same problem. Everytime I reboot the /Volumes path changes.
I use an external Firewire (Soft-)RAID for my user folders.
How can I avoid this bug?

Felix



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