Thanks Jim! I will let you know how I make out, I just got Ubuntu Desktop (7.04) installed on my server now updating, for some reason the server version wouldn't initialize the keyboard. I will see how I make out with the sharing on Linux. I also have the Windows 2003 server to keep playing with as well. Hopefully I will find a way to move the students network systems off to one of the two servers. Both have 250Gb mirrored drives, much better then the single 60 un-mirrored on the OSX server (don't ask was purchased before I got here). Again thank you for the help so far. --Shane <div>On 9/20/07, Jim Kronebusch <<a href="mailto:jim@winonacotter.org">jim@winonacotter.org</a> > wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:40:52 -0400, Shane Sammons wrote > Maybe someone here would know. I have search Google and I keep getting > instructions on NFS shares, Samba, etc. Yet, not one has been setting up and > moving user home folder in OS X Workgroup Manager from local AFP shares to > an SMB or NFS share. > > I created a basic Windows share and entered smb:\\192.168.168.6\students > with username in both of its fields and that didn't work. I then tried the > username:password@Workgroup/servername/share format. Still account were made > locally. > > I am not going to setup an Ubuntu Server and see if I can do it with NFS > shares. However, again no luck with finding documentation on it. I have > found notes of issues with the file locking of 10.3 systems which we use. > > Would anyone here know and be a good resource for this or perhaps could > direct me to some documentation? > > Thanks, > Shane Sammons Well this isn't exactly for what you want to do, but maybe it will give you a clue as to what you need to do. Here is a howto I posted a few years back on getting OSX to work with LDAP and NFS home's. <a href="http://www.1-cs.com/osxldap.html">http://www.1-cs.com/osxldap.html</a> Section 3 and 4 might have what you need. If your setup is currently using the local /home folder you could use these instructions to mount /home from a nfs server on startup to your local /home server (if your user data is stored in a different location by default such as Users, you should be able to change the instructions to use that location). Warning, you can hose a system pretty quick in NetInfo Manager. Have a backup :-) One other thing I had a problem with. Mac doesn't use a file extension by default and store data about the file in a bazillion .Apple* whatever files. For some reason this broke for me when using NFS. All files needed an extension or they just showed up with a terminal icon and users didn't know how to open them. I think NFS breaks apples communication with the sill .Apple crap, where AFP and SMB didn't. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones to get this problem and things will be better for you. Fix, make users add extensions to all their files (yeah right). If you want to use samba, you may be able to change the vfstype to smb. Hope this helps. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>