Apple 10.5 Leapard manual Creating External Accounts, To create an external account

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4Click Mobility, click Account Creation, click Creation, and then set the management setting to Always.

5Select “Create mobile account when user logs in to network account.”

This option must be selected to enable a mobile account for the selected account.

6Click Options and then set the management setting to Always.

7Select a “Home folder location” option.

If you select “at path,” enter the path to a folder on an external drive in the format /Volumes/DriveName/Folder, replacing DriveName with the name of the external drive and Folder with a folder on the external drive. If you don’t specify a volume, the location is on the startup volume.

If you select “user chooses,” choose a type of volume from the pop-up menu to allow the user to store his or her local home folder on that type of volume.

8Click Apply Now.

Creating External Accounts

An external account is a mobile account where the local home folder is stored on an external drive, allowing the user access to his or her account on any computer with Mac OS X v10.5 or later.

The user’s local home folder is stored entirely on the external drive and leaves no remnants on computers. External accounts also save hard disk space on the computer, which is especially important if you don’t set an account expiration or if many users create mobile accounts with local home folders on the same computer.

You can choose one of three ways to determine the location of the external account. All of these ways can be used to set up external accounts:

ÂIf you set the location to “on startup volume,” the mobile account doesn’t immediately become an external account. After creating the local home folder, if the user starts target disk mode on the computer and connects it to a client computer, the mobile account then becomes an external account.

ÂIf you set the location to “at path,” you can enter the path for the mobile account’s local home folder. If you enter a path for an external drive, a local home folder is created on the external drive after the user logs in.

ÂIf you set the location to “user chooses volume,” when the user logs in, a window appears allowing the user to choose whether to store the local home folder on the computer or on an external drive. If the user chooses an external drive, a local home folder is created on the external drive.

To create an external account:

1In Workgroup Manager, click Preferences.

2Make sure the correct directory is selected and you are authenticated.

Chapter 10 Managing Preferences