Can I put Network Users on a sparse bundle disk image?

Hello! Can anyone out there help me figure out what seems to be a rather complicated feat? I'm trying to get users to log in to client iMacs as if they were local accounts, but the user account information is stored on a sparse bundle disk image.
Long story short, I've currently got OS X Server running network user accounts tied to Active Directory. When the users log in, they have a sparse bundle disk image that automatically mounts on their desktop. This has been an effective solution for some of our software that doesn't play well with Network storage, as the sparse bundle is treated like local storage by the Macs.
However, what would be a much better solution for us is to actually have the whole user account stored on the disk image. It's a little like the way FileVault 1 worked, except the disk image is actually stored on a network drive. So far, as a proof-of-concept, I've been able to make this work manually: I've had to log in to a local admin user and then mount the user's sparse bundle with all their user folder contents contained within. Then, once the user path is changed to point to the disk image, the user logs right in, everything works exactly as expected (once I got the permissions set correctly). This method works exactly like a Network User account except that all the applications see it as local storage instead of network storage.
The trick, though, is automating this process. I want a user to sit down in front of any iMac, log in and go straight to their account. It would be nice if OS X Server was able to accommodate this with a setting, but it doesn't. So, my plan so far has been to create a generic local account with a script on the desktop that users can open to login in. The script would then mount the network share, then mount the sparse bundle disk image, then log the user in to their "local" account on the iMac. When they log out, there's a login hook that restarts the machine.
So far, I'm stumbling over the fact that the sparse bundle unmount when logging out of the generic "login" account, preventing the user from logging in. But if I leave the generic account logged in, then the loginhook to restart the computer doesn't work.
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

IIRC, sparse images only grow as things are added, but do not shrink. Create a new one, mount the original, transfer your stuff from the original into the new one, and delete the original one.

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I'm trying to create a sparse bundle disk image in /Users/Shared for sharing between two users on the same computer. No matter what I've tried, the disk always mounts as read only for the non-owner user. I've tried creating the disk image in both accounts, adding the non-owner user with "read & write" permissions, changing all permissions (including everyone) to "read & write," but nothing seems to help. Does anyone have any experience sharing sparse bundle disk images using the shared folder?
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I realized after reading the replies above (thank you, A.Carlo and KJK555) that I was only applying permissions to the top level of the sparse bundle image and not to the underlying directories and files in the package. This was what was keeping the second user from making changes to the mounted disk image. After digging a little deeper into possible solutions, following is what I decided to do.
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1. Full permissions (rwx) for user1 and user2
2. No permissions (---) for everyone else
3. Directories and files created by user1 or user2 need to be fully accessible (rwx) by the other user
In order to block access to the sparse bundle from unwanted users and to allow for inherited permissions for all future directories and files, I took the following steps:
1. Created a new group (group1) with user1 and user2 as members
2. Created a new folder (Example) under /Users/Shared
3. Removed all permissions from the new folder for everyone but user1 (chmod 700 Example)
4. Added an ACL to prevent group everyone from deleting the new folder (chmod +a "group:everyone deny delete" Example)
5 Added an ACL to give group1 full permissions (rwx) to the new folder and allow those permissions to be inherited by new directories and files created within that folder (chmod +a "group:christophertemple allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeex tattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directoryinherit)
This is what the new folder looks like from Terminal:
$ ls -le
total 0
drwx------+ 4 user1 wheel 136 Sep 18 12:45 Example
0: group:everyone deny delete
1: group:group1 allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeex tattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directoryinherit
This folder is now accessible only by user1 and user2 and any files or directories created in this folder will be accessible by both users, regardless of which of the two users created them.
Next, I created an encrypted sparse bundle disk image within the new folder. In Terminal, the disk image looks like this:
$ ls -le
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 user1 wheel 204 Sep 18 13:03 Example.sparsebundle
0: group:group1 inherited allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeex tattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directoryinherit
As can be seen above, the new sparse bundle has inherited the group permissions from the parent directory, giving user1 and user2 full access to the disk image.
While I could have added a few extra steps and changed the permissions of the mounted disk image, I decided against doing so; the default permissions were perfect for my use. By default, the mounted disk image is set to "Ignore ownership on this volume."
When mounted by user1 this is how the disk image looks in Terminal:
$ ls -le
total 8
drwx------ 7 user1 staff 306 Sep 18 13:01 Example Disk Image
When mounted by user2 this is how the disk image looks in Terminal:
$ ls -le
total 8
drwx------ 7 user2 staff 306 Sep 18 13:01 Example Disk Image
With these permissions, no user, other than the user that mounted the image, has access to the image while the image is mounted. This is useful from a security standpoint, keeping others from viewing the contents of the disk image, as well as from a data integrity standpoint, allowing only one person to access files on the disk image at a time (important for some of the data base files the image contains).
Thanks again to those that responded. I hope this post is helpful to others who might have similar requirements as I did.
Christopher

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IIRC, sparse images only grow as things are added, but do not shrink. Create a new one, mount the original, transfer your stuff from the original into the new one, and delete the original one.

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I've been doing a lot of reading about (and watching tutorials about) sparse disk images and sparse bundle disk images.
Most of what I've read has addressed using sparse disk images as a way to archive and move from Mac to Mac FCPX projects and their associated events. But I have a some questions:
1) Isn't it better to always use a sparse bundle disk image rather than a sparse disk image? I use Carbon Copy Cloner, and it seems like for backup programs that periodically do incremental back ups of changed files, the sparse bundle disk image is a better choice. But is there any downside to using a bundle image? Is it somehow slower?
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Sparse Bundle Disk Image

Hello,
I've come accross a little issue that I cannot seem to find the solution for.
I don't use TimeMachine but do use FileVault which I have enabled on my account.
Now, my account is stored in the main partition of my harddrive which has roughly 100GB and it is now full! However, I know I don't have that much stuff stored on the laptop and started investigating where all that space was gone.
It seems that my /Users/.paul sparse bundle disk image is around 80GB large!!
However, if I du -kh on my /Users/paul folder, I only get 23GB...
Several questions that someone might know the answer to:
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Kind regards,
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Hi and Welcome to  Discussions!
Sparse images automatically adjust their size when needed, but they do not decrease in size automatically when you delete stuff inside. But you can compact the image to the space acutally needed via Terminal. To do so you need to use hdiutil as explained here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040625012304236
Have fun!
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I think I had this system working in Leopard, but upon upgrade to Snow Leopard it seems to have broken. Does anyone have any idea how I can get Time Machine to back up the contents of a mounted sparse bundle disk image in real time - file by file within the disk image? For example, I have a 2GB sparse bundle disk image that i keep all of my bank statements/files/records in. It auto-mounts on boot and stays mounted. I use the disk image to keep it password-protected, so if I unmount it it is fairly safe. In Leopard, I would exclude the .sparseimage file from backup, but it would still backup the mounted image itself on a file-by-file basis, so I could enter Time Machine and explore the image folder by folder, file by file (say I deleted an old bank statement by mistake, I could go into time machine and recover as if it were a normal file/folder).
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I think you're trying to bypass the finder to mount the disk. Try this (I'll bold the key steps):
- *Turn off Time Machine* in the System Preferences.
- Option A: If you directly use a hard disk (not wireless) that has the sparsebundle you want to open, *connect the disk* but don't double click on the sparsebundle.
- Option B: If you are using wireless, this means use shift-command-k (or shift-apple-k), and if it says "Connect As..." in the upper right instead of disconnect, then use that button to *connect to that wireless drive*.
- Confirm the sparsebundle shows in that folder before proceeding...
- *Open Terminal* (Applications>Utilities>Terminal.app)
- Type: *hdiutil attach -noverify* (<-- notice a *space " "* must be included after typing this here but *DON'T hit return* yet.)
- *Drag the sparsebundle to the cursor in terminal*, and it should fill in something like /Volumes/HardDrive/COMPUTERNAME.sparsebundle for you. Now you can hit return, and the disk will mount.
- After you are done browsing sparsebundle's mounted image, *eject the mounted disk* like you would any other disk (not the sparsebundle image itself, just the disk icon that appeared if you successfully mounted it).
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Setting up sparse and sparse bundle disk images goes fine. But sometimes when attempting to open the image later, particularily after adding content (JPGs) I get the spinning beachball and then I must restart the computer. I have restarted this computer more than all my others put together, going back to OSA 7.
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Sorry about the typos in my first message. I was tired after fighting the sparse image problem with Lion.
Today I have tried read/write disk images (dmg) and so far they seem to work fine. I would prefer sparse or sparse bundle disk images since they only take as much room as their contents, but I'll have to be practical about this.
The frustrating thing is that sometimes the sparse or sparse bundle images seem to work, but just when I relax, I'll open one and see all the blank square icons for each of the jpg files, and then I know I'll have to restart the computer.
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1:: [13/04/05 16:11:10.379] Scheduling next sync of "HomeSync_Mirror" at 2013-04-05 14:11:20 +0000
1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.782] ==========================================================
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.782] Starting automatic sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
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1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.786] [0x7fd5a9224760/<SStore_FS:0x105db3420>] +[SStore_FS newStore_FSForPeer:alias:]: isRemote = NO
1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.786] [0x7fd5a9224760/<SStore_FS:0x105db3420>] +[SStore_FS newStore_FSForPeer:rootPath:rootAlias:rootRef:storePath:optionalStoreID:]: peer = <SPeer_FS:0x7fd5a5009520> = local, optionalStoreID = (null), peer.storeIDString = *
1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.786] [0x7fd5a9224760/<SStore_FS:0x105db3420>] +[SStore_FS newStore_FSForPeer:rootPath:rootAlias:rootRef:storePath:optionalStoreID:]: rootPath        = /Users/gerben
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1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.787] [0x7fd5a9224760/<SStore_FS:0x105db3420>] +[SStore_FS newStore_FSForPeer:rootPath:rootAlias:rootRef:storePath:optionalStoreID:]: rootAlias       = {path='/Users/gerben', targetName='gerben', volumeName='Macintosh HD', type=DIR, volumeCreateDate=2010-08-10-12:58:16, targetCreateDate=2011-08-28-18:39:13, parentDirID=37638, nodeID=3003598, filesystemID=0000 ('0000'), signature=0x482b ('H+'), isBootVolume=YES, isAutomounted=NO, isEjectable=NO, hasPersistentFileIDs=YES, mounted=YES, url='file://localhost/'}
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0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] EXCEPTION: _mountServerCallbackShares:status: (Host is down) <-[SPeer_FS mountPeerVolumeWithURLString:] (Peer-FS.m:446): "'(-1)' error 64">
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0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790]     NSLocalizedDescription = "Host is down";
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] }
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0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x105cb79b7
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x105cbf0e5
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x105c2c866
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x105c2babd
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x105c2acb4
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x7fff858bb72a
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x7fff858bb6a2
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x7fff874cf8bf
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] ? | 0x7fff874d2b75
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.790] }
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0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x105c2bb66
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x105c2acb4
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x7fff858bb72a
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x7fff858bb6a2
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x7fff874cf8bf
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] ? | 0x7fff874d2b75
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] }
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1:: [13/04/05 16:11:20.798] EXCEPTION: SFAbortedException <-[SSyncEngine _waitForPeers:] (SyncEngine.m:1922): "'(_abort)'">
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0:: [13/04/05 16:11:21.067] Last successful sync completed at 2013-04-04 20:17:15 +0000.
0:: [13/04/05 16:11:21.067] Finished sync of "HomeSync_Mirror".
1:: [13/04/05 16:11:21.067] Scheduling next sync of "HomeSync_Mirror" at 2013-04-05 14:31:21 +0000
1:: [13/04/05 16:11:21.284] 1-pass sync of "HomeSync_Mirror" took 0.02 seconds

Hi Gerben,
Try creating a brand new user, that's not imported and see if that works. Every user/group has a little gear in the Server.app/Users or Groups which allows specific access to specific services, perhaps filesharing is off in that section?
Is your DNS setup properly? Can you verify that clients can see the FQDN of your server?
After setting up the Users folder for mobilehomes, did you check whether the group and the separate users have access to filesharing? I am able to select the correct homefolder /Users and restrict the homefolder size.
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Jeffrey

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