Can 10.6 server serve Windows home directories?

Assuming no AD box, can the Mac server provide mobile logons to hosted home directories from within a LAN to Win XP or 7 users? Don't much care about WAN logins at this stage!
Many thanks

Short answer is yes. XP Pro is much easier to set up with roaming profiles. Win 7 Pro is possible with some dumbing down of the security in Windows 7.

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We have about 20 10.6.3 OSX Clients bound to an 10.6.3. OSX Server with Home directories stored on the Server. The Home Directories are served to the Clients via NFS.
What was working fine with 10.5 server and 10.5 clients and even with 10.6 server and 10.5 clients now stopped working with both server an client running on 10.6.
If one puts files from the remote home directories to the trash the Finder is not able anymore to place them in the trash, it just displays a message the files would be deleted immediately.
I have done all the usual magic: deleting the .Trash directory, changing rights on that dir, etc.
It seems the finder does not recognize the Trash folder any more. If i delete the .Trash dir it will not be recreated the next time i trash one file. If i put one file inside the .Trash dir with terminal it will be ignored by finder.
this happens with older users generated users as the server was on 10.5 and (sadly) even with new users generated on 10.6 for testing.
Does anyone have a solution for this or has encountered the same error?
Thanks,
Ben

I wonder if it is an NFS issue?
We are serving network homes via AFP and do not have the issue.
Be sure that there is a .Trashes directory on the root of the volume your network homes are on as well as the .Trash folder in the root of each user's home.
Other than that if possible make a switch to AFP and see if it works. That will help narrow it down.

Migrating Users To Server-based Home Directories

When you install a new server and you want to migrate users to server-based home directories and they currently have local home directories (with iCal, iTunes, iPhone, etc.), what is the process?
Will their local data be auto-moved to the server? Will it be deleted? What?
Message was edited by: Jerry Britton1

I went through this many years ago. Here's what I did...
#1: Create the user in Open Directory.
#2: Log in to the local account on the computer.
#3: Using "Connect to Server..." mount the network home on the client Mac.
#4: Copy all data to the same folders on the network home.
#5: Delete the local account.
Now when the user logs in with network credentials their network home will have all their stuff. Some preference files may need to be recreated but that's about it.

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I have a Mac running 10.4 server acting as file server on a network on a Windows 2003 SBS domain. The Mac is not bound to active directory yet, and users network to it since it is a member of the workgroup.
My IT admin wants to set up roaming user profiles for my staff. He wants to store the windows home directories on the Mac.
What do I have to do to accomplish this. I assume I will have to bind the Mac to active directory as a server.
I would like to store the windows home directories on a partition that I regularly back-up.
Can someone walk me through this?

Hi Stephen have a look on page 27 of this document
http://applemac.csd.sc.edu/PDFS/MacOSXwithActiveDirectory.pdf
May be of some help.
Cheers.

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hi,
I am using mac os x server to manage a small workgroup using open directory and network home directories, the server is backed up using time machine. From what I understand, time machine does work on network home directories.
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Of course, it would be easy to restore files by logging onto the server as the user and restoring from there. I am just wondering if there is a more elegant solution available to do this from a client machine.
any thoughts?
thx!

Hi,
I am trying to do the same exact thing and find that it is best to do this locally (for now). Not only is the network way slower, but it seems to make things worse. For example, things backed up via the client machine are routed from the FTP server/volume mount and different permission wise. When you try to restore them locally, it should work, but the folder had different permissions because they were initially created in root (for me). So, I hope they would come out with something better than what is available now. Thanks!

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is still possible to purchase windows home server? we were given an old server we thought it would work great as a file sharing server but I can't seem to purchase windows home server 2011 any longer, I found used copies on Amazon but I'm afraid
I won't be able to activate it.

Hi
You can look at Windows Server 2012 foundation or Essentials. Maximum 15 and 25 users respectively.
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I am in the process of migrating users from an older xserve running 10.3 with open directory to a new xserve running 10.5. So far, everything is looking good with the migration, the only major issue I'm running into in my testing is with Portable Home Directories. Presently, the portable home directory on the computer still points to the old server for existing user accounts after they are moved to the new open directory server. On the 10.3 server, the home directories are all mounted under /Volumes/Home, where on Leopard it appears it wants to create the shares under /Volumes/ServerName/Folder. Granted, at present the original server's Home Folders are on a fiber attached raid and in testing I don't have this available. Any suggestions on a way to test easily without moving the raid? Also, is there an easy way to do a mass change on user machines where if I move my raid over to the new server, I can make sure that users data is being backed up to the proper location?
Sorry for the lengthy post, just trying to make sure I'm covering all my bases, heh.

Antonio, thanks for the response. I do have one more question regarding this. On the client side, the mirrors.plist file references the old server FQDN and share name. Because this will be being moved over to the new server, is there an easy method to update the clients mirror plist without breaking the PHD mirror? My big concern here is that either the users will not be able to synchronize phd's or we will have to re-establish all the phd's from the client machines to the server. My thought here is simply using a cname to direct any traffic still trying to hit the old server name to the new server name.

What are the correct settings for my WRT54GS for using remote access on a Windows Home Server?

I can not remotely access my Windows Home Server from outside. What are the correct settings for my WRT54GS?

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Help requested with Windows Portable Directories

Setup:
Tiger Server 10.4.11
Everything is setup up perfectly and all Mac users can login and use their portable home directories. Everything works great.
Here's my question:
Is it possible to replicate the same behavior when logging in from Windows XP?
I setup a test user (WINUSER) and pointed him to the same share I use for the Mac home directories.
How do I set it up so that when I log in with this user from Windows XP, that Windows XP creates a local account and syncs it with the Mac OS X server (the same way that the Mac laptops do it).
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Figured it out.

Sol 10 TX Home Directories LDAP AUTOFS

I currently have a small network that is comprised of Solaris 10 08/07 machines with Trusted Extensions enable on all machines. The network does have a Trusted Extensions LDAP server that serves the network. The LDAP server is Directory Server 5.2 P4. I have not loaded any patch clusters on any of the systems.
When I create a user I have to perform a lengthy process to ensure the user can log in at multiple levels simultaneously. After the user is created, the process is as follows:
On the LDAP/Home Directory Server (My LDAP Server also serves the Home Directories)
1.     Log into the system as the newly created user
2.     Ensure the session is Trusted JDS.
3.     Ensure �Restrict to Single level� is selected.
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5.     Continue the login process. A single level desktop would be displayed and the user can open terminal windows, etc..
6.     Logout of the system. Do not logout until a desktop is displayed.
7.     Repeat steps 1-6 for all possible labels for the user, selecting 1 at a time.
8.     Once the user has a desktop at all levels, log in to the system.
9.     Make sure �Restrict to Single Label� is NOT checked.
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I have read in the TX install guide explains this process for the Home Directory server. But I have to do this on the clients as well. Once the process is complete I can log in as the user and verify that autofs is mounting the home directory properly. I have not tried the script that is in the install guide either. I will need to modify the script to ensure only new users are given home dirs.
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Are the zones on different machines (1 for LDAP and 1 for the machine the user logs into)?
General:
You may want to check and see if the zones of each machine is listed under the CIPSO rules and not set as admin low ---- tninfo command for this check.
If on the same machine you have 2 options 1) go through the network interface for each zone and use CIPSO rules [regular networking] 2) be subject to the rules of multi-level access, in which you should use multi-level aware process to access the files [keep in mind the dominance issue, and that you should really know what you are doing if you create a multi-level aware process].

NFS and LDAP on different servers: Problems with location of home director

Dear Apple Experts.
We are using LDAP server for user authentification
and NFS server for home directories.
Both are decictaed servers on differnt machines.
on the NFS server there are directories
/home/urpi
for staff's home directories
and
/home/students
for student's home directories
both are mounted to the Mac minis in
/Users directory
so
/Users/urpi
contains home directories for staff
/Users/students
contains home directories for students
Authentification works well andpermission are set as needed
but OS X shows missing home directories for LDAP authentificated users
and terminal shows missing home directory
for me it is
/home/urpi/fodrek
I was tried to mount NFS to /home, but it is not allowed
Would I ask if there is any setting to add directories, where home directories are placed,please?
I look forward hearing form you.
Yours faithfully
Peter Fodrek

So none of these machines are Snow Leopard servers?
What exactly do you mean when you say you tried to mount the NFS share to home? Can you copy and paste the command and error?
It sounds as though you don't actually have the NFS shares mounted. Assuming this is so, you might want to investigate how the automount command works so that your MacMinis mount the NFS shares on boot.
If your NFS/LDAP server is an OS X 10.6 server, set the shares to be automounted as user/group directories. Make sure your LDAP server is providing correct information on the home directory location. If it is local, I think the home directories need to be in /Users. If your mounts are indeed working but you cannot login, you might consider making links from /Users to /home/urpi or /home/students on an account-by-account basis (could be done with a quick shell script).

Desktop Policies for Windows Home Edition

Can policies be applied to Windows Home Edition?

It will most likely work, but "Home Edition" is not supported.
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TS1490 i am running Windows Home Server 2011 and iTunes can't seem to connect to the iTunes Store nor run Genius on my Library. What do I need to do?

I am running Windows Home Server 2011 and have installed iTunes on my dedicated server, attached to my router. I can't connect to the iTunes Store nor run Genius on the server ONLY (iTunes runs fine on by two other PCs and my Apple TV and I share the libary that resides on the server). I am running a very current version of iTunes 64 bit. I have run the connectivity test and it failed.
My guess is that there is some setting in the Server software that i need to change to let iTunes access urls or computers on the internet. Does anyone have any experience with this software combination?
Thank you

Some guy managed to get this to work. The following link is for iTunes 10.5 but it should work for the current release.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whs2011/thread/bd62ee3d-a933-4cad-ae9b- fd38adc994c0
Good luck!

Can't RDP to Windows Home Server 2011

I saw a post from several years ago that said Verizon's TOS doesn't allow servers. Couldn't find anything recent so was wondering if it still applies now that WHS 2011 and other NAS have come out targeted for home users (read...low bandwidth requirement). I can access the server remotely via https:// to browse,upload, and stream content, but can't remotely login to administer. Going crazy trying to set up port forwarding on my Actiontec MI424WR router for port 4125. Any help/ideas?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Unless you changed it, RDP uses TCP port 3389. In the registry you can actually change the port if you want. I have 2 machines, one uses 3389 while the other was set to 3390. I can access either of them easily.
In either scenario you need to make sure the Windows firewall is opened...

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