Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 157)

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Setting Up Home Directories for Users Defined in Existing Directory
Servers
When you integrate Mac OS X Server into an environment that uses an existing directory server
for storing user information, you can take advantage of that information for authenticating
users, but use one or more Mac OS X Servers to store home directories for users.
The following picture illustrates this scenario. A user has access to his home directory on
Mac OS X Server after logging in to a Mac OS X computer and being authenticated using
Active Directory information.
The numbers in this figure illustrate the sequence of interactions that occur between the
time a user logs in to the Mac OS X client computer and can choose Home from the Go
menu to access his home directory:
Windows 2000 server
hosting Active Directory
Mac OS X
client computer
Mac OS X Server
hosting home directories
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