NoMachine NX type software for Mac OS X?
Hex Star
hexstar at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 07:36:18 PDT 2007
On 9/13/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I found this article:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/02/08/netinfo.html which seems
> quite interesting but it looks like it was written before Mac OS X Tiger was
> released? Has the user home directory preference changed location in NetInfo
> since the release of Tiger and if so where is it? If I enable file sharing
> on the main desktop machine and set the home folder for users on the laptop
> to the desktop machine ( e.g. afp://ipaddresshere) making sure user
> ids/groups are the same should this work as an alternative to relying on an
> ldap server (thus allowing me to just have the same users created locally on
> both machines while also allowing the laptop to see the user files stored on
> the desktop machine)? Also, adding users with the same Name/Short Name as
> the desktop machine should be sufficient for duplicating the user/group ids
> right? Thanks! :)
>
Still would like an answer to these questions, thanks :)
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