Without Migration Assistant, what is recommend method to move user directory from a Mac to local home on SLS?
I need to move a user's home directory contents from an old Mac to a "Home Folder for a Local User" on Snow Leopard Server (SLS). I both the old Mac and an external drive, which was used to make a TimeMachine backup of the old Mac. Since SLS does not have Migration Assistant, what is the recommended method to a user's data to SLS home folders?
BillK
Sorry...not trying to be cryptic, but any of the methods you mentioned for copying would work. Simply mounting the sharepoint and copying the data would work. I didn't mention a specific method, because I wasn't sure what was available to you.
As to the permissions, once the data is copied, if you are moving form one Mac to another, and not using the same existing OD on both, the owner may be the same (depending on the name you use on the accounts) but joesmith on one Mac will not transfer permissions to joesmith on another Mac. So you will need to make sure the owner of all the data is set to the correct user on the new Mac. Using the command line, you could navigate to the home folder and use this command to make the owner of the files the correct user
sudo chown -R nameofuser *
nameofuser would be the name on the account that you want to give ownership to
then sudo chmod -R u=rwx *
to make sure the owner has full access to everything in his/her home folder.
Hope that's more helpful
Jeff
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