On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:25 PM,10/31, LuKreme wrote:

> OK, First thing is I’ve tried to set up the web server. Previously I had my 
> http.conf pointing at /Users/kreme/Sites but I now want it to be in another 
> location.
> 

Can't help there . . .never tried putting a web site on it.

> For filesharing/portable homes I go to the FIle Sharing and select “Users” 
> and check “Make available for home directories over AFP.”
> 
> When I login to another Mac on the LAN, I see nothing about putting home on 
> the server.


Haven't tried Lion Server . . .but with SL Server you have to do a couple of 
things in the right order. IIRC . . .first is to go onto the server and 
install/configure Open Directory. Next, create the appropriate username on the 
server in OD. Next, go to the client and in the Users Pref pane click Network 
Account Server and then fill in the hostname info. Next you need to turn your 
local non portable home directory account on the client into the same one on 
the server . . .can't remember all the details for that but it's well explained 
in the documentation (at least for SL server it was).

Essentially to use portable homedirs you have to use the same userid on all 
clients and as the network account in OD on the server. Then you log in on the 
client and you'll get the network account if you're on the network at home and 
a locally cached copy of the homedir . . .the homedir syncs back from/to the 
server when you log in/out. If away from home it just logs in locally and then 
resyncs when you get back home. I can't remember if the sync actually occurs 
real time or just at login/out . . .but you can control to some extent what and 
when it syncs. The downside of syncing more and more often is than bandwidth 
available for other purposes goes down.


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There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking 
stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello.

neil



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