Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) - Manual (Page 154)

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Distributing Home Directories Across Multiple Servers
The following illustration depicts using one Mac OS X Server for storing user accounts and
two other Mac OS X Servers for storing AFP home directories.
When a user logs in, he or she is authenticated using an account stored in a shared directory
domain on the accounts server. The location of the user’s home directory, stored in the
account, is used to mount the home directory, which resides physically on one of the two
home directory servers.
Here are the steps you could use to set up this scenario for AFP home directories:
1 Create a shared domain for the user accounts on the accounts server. See “Setting Up an
Open Directory Domain and Password Server” on page 71 for how to create a shared
domain.
2 Set up an automountable share point for the home directories on each home directory
server. See “Defining a Network Home Directory for AFP Access” on page 156 for
instructions.
3 Create the user accounts in the shared domain on the accounts server. Set up the accounts
so the home directories reside in one or the other of the automountable share points.
See instructions in “Creating User Accounts in Directory Domains on Mac OS X Server” on
page 134 for how to set user account attributes and “Defining a Network Home Directory for
AFP Access” on page 156 for details specific to home directory setup.
4 Set up the directory services of the client computers so their search policy includes the
shared directory domain on the accounts server. See “Setting Up Search Policies” on page 87
for information about setting up a Mac OS X client’s search policy.
Mac OS X Servers
User accounts
Home directories A thru M Home directories N thru Z
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