File Path Tracking

[Markus Hitter]

Am 16.10.2007 um 10:25 schrieb Graham J Lee:

> (admin and root had local home directories, everyone else accessed  
> a file server for theirs, which is actually less distributed (and  
> less insane) than the NIS/NFS-style setup you describe)

Thousands of Homes on a single server can be pretty hefty and  
distributing this evenly to all the workstations gives a long list of  
(auto)mounts, but makes a giant file server obsolete, as well.

> I suppose the point is that sharing an alias between a 'local' and  
> 'network' user is not guaranteed to work, but then that rarely if  
> ever happened

The Dock uses Aliases, for example. As do some of the right side  
menus, e.g. Classic. The latter stops the Finder from loading if it  
points to an unresolvable volume.


Markus

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