Is it possible to move or merge my local user account with an Active Directory account?

10.7.2 update now allows me to authenticate against AD, and I have a shiny new account on my mac. Is there any way to merge my local and AD accounts? Or link my local account to my AD account? Can I change the home directory of the AD account to point to my local account folder?

Gary,
Performance would be absolutely horrible if you hung a USB drive off an AEBS and used that as your home directory, wirelessly. You're going to be getting no more than about 10 MB/sec, or roughly 1/5 the speed (in the IDEAL case -- practically it's worse than that) of your current setup.
If you want to access the same email from multiple Macs, you should consider using IMAP. .Mac can do this -- and you can have up to 4 GB on the server, if you pay for it. Default is up to 1 GB, if you shrink your iDisk space to nothing.
Another alternative if you want to share something centrally is to use OS X Server and Portable Home Directories. This is pretty complicated for the home user, though, and requires OS X Server (minimum $499), a machine to run it on, and some good knowledge of Open Directory and AFP services. It works quite well for corporate clients though.
Otherwise, synching stuff across multiple machines may work. But don't even think about moving your whole home directory to a central network mounted drive, especially something as slow as a USB drive on an AEBS over wireless.

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