Erich Wetzel wrote:
I guess I must be getting old or the techs who are around are young. This was something that the server was able to do without significant effort for quite some time. If I remember correctly it was a checkbox in Server Admin. Anyway, I agree that while the ideas to implement it may be sound, the work to put it in place is not worth it.
Don't worry your mind is not going I remember this feature as well and used to use it. 🙂
The way it (used) to work was that when you defined a share you could also define what type of auto-mount it was, the usual choice being for home directories. This was actually done in Server Admin - not Workgroup Manager or Server.app.
The choices were -
- User home folders and group folders
- Shared Applications folder
- Shared Library folder
- Custom mount path
In Server.app 4.x the only choice now is "Make available for home directories".
Since existing defined mounts do get migrated successfully to Server.app it would seem reasonable to assume that Open Directory can still store and utilise these definitions and so can current Mac clients it is merely that the GUI in Server.app does not let you define them any more. As you cannot use 'ye olde' Server Admin to manage a new style server the only options would be to either try hand editing the LDAP records, or try using a suitable command line tool, perhaps dscl?
A different approach would be to use a commercial font-server package which is what I suspect most design houses do these days.