Home Folders and Skype
I know many people have had issues using Skype while logged into a Network Home Folder. It would take 25 minutes to log in and then everything would work fine. Here's my fix:
My solution has been to create a new folder named Skype in /Library/Application\ Support, set its permissions to 777 so that all users can access it, and then create a symbolic link in each user's ~/Library/Application\ Support folder that points to the /Library/Application\ Support/Skype folder.
The following terminal commands will accomplish the task, and are computer-specific:
mkdir /Library/Application\ Support/Skype
chmod -R 777 /Library/Application\ Support/Skype
The following commands remove the user's ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype folder and replace it with a symbolic link to /Library/Application\ Support/Skype. They are user-specific:
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype
ln -s /Library/Application\ Support/Skype ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype
It seems to work well now. Let me know if you have any questions.
My solution has been to create a new folder named Skype in /Library/Application\ Support, set its permissions to 777 so that all users can access it, and then create a symbolic link in each user's ~/Library/Application\ Support folder that points to the /Library/Application\ Support/Skype folder.
The following terminal commands will accomplish the task, and are computer-specific:
mkdir /Library/Application\ Support/Skype
chmod -R 777 /Library/Application\ Support/Skype
The following commands remove the user's ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype folder and replace it with a symbolic link to /Library/Application\ Support/Skype. They are user-specific:
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype
ln -s /Library/Application\ Support/Skype ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype
It seems to work well now. Let me know if you have any questions.
Xserve G5, Mac OS X (10.4.9)