Sounds like some heavy discussions are going on! The problem with this is not having data backed up. So, the accounts are local with local only homes.

We were using mobile accounts but have moved back to local accounts as the server space started filling up quickly. They started this shift in Mavericks and moving more towards SMB2.Īs far as what we are doing at the moment. I looked into this an Apple is slowly but surely moving away from AFP. The only obstacle we are running into is having it accessible offline. I do believe we will create the folder share path in AD and have it mount. They have seen the golden triangle configuration and have experienced issues with it. Engineers are well more experienced than I. I did mention the golden triangle approach but members of the team do not want to go down this road. As a script or something similar maybe flaky and unreliable, (a use at your own risk.) Like you stated, we need to be quite cautious how we implement this. The team I am on have discussed using some sort of script to copy the contents of the folder back to the user share when on campus. mobile accounts or not, synced homes, network only homes, local only homes, or something else? Out of interest, what are you doing at the moment with OD, user accounts and home folders? I.e.

You might also want to do a bit more testing with SMB reliability in your environment as it isn't as good as the Apple native AFP for file sharing (just my opinion though ) I would be quite cautious around this topic as there are a bunch of configurations that will be very unstable. In our case the sync is one way only, so doesn't pull data down if they login to a different Mac. We don't find the OS X mobile home sync reliable enough so we do this through a set of custom scripts. In some schools we support (usually for compliance reasons), we sync any locally created data up to the SMBHome. The mobile account doesn't have any relation to the home folder or syncing in particular.įor the home folder and user data, our preference is to just mount the SMBHome on the desktop when a user logs in, or for laptops, give them a dock icon they can click to mount when they need it. Our preference is to use mobile accounts (which caches the account so they can login offline).

Thinking rock sync with one drive