OSX 10.11 Mobility Home Sync

[linkazoid]

We are in the process of updating to El Capitan, and are looking to move our Mac Home folders to our VNX SAN.

 

We've previously used ExtremeZ-IP on our old Dell Server to manage the shares and had our clients set to sync User Homes on log on and log off. We can't however get this to work in 10.11

 

Ideally, we'd like to be able to keep the home folders separated from the AD UNC Path option.

 

How are people managing to do this? What would your recommendation be?

 

Thanks,

 

Michael

[Mustang]

I would steer well clear of Home Sync (if thats what your actually using) i have never seen it work reliably and the online Apple communities advises against using it.

I also believe its deprecated in the next version os Mac OS.

 

Any reason you don't want to use the AD home folder path? our students love being able to swap between mac / pc and being able to access there files from the same location.

 

Which model is your VNX? and is it fully unified or just file only or just block only?

[linkazoid]

We've been using it reliably since 2013 but not sure if 10.11 will actually work. We are having some success with the symbolic links using this thread. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/170723-student-profile.html

 

The issue with sharing the same path arises when we use file path and file type restrictions to block .mp3 and some others but then they need to save their own created .mp3's on Mac.

 

We have a VNX5300 which I believe is fully unified. Why do you ask?

 

Thanks,

 

Michael

[Mustang]

It may have worked because you were syncing over AFP which i have never tried. Yes i have also been using symbolic links for the Desktop, Documents etc for years so i have no need for sync.

 

How are you enforcing the file restrictions? using a windows file server?

 

Only asking because you need to make sure the 5300 is up to the task cpu wise and you have enough disks for the extra IO. Other than that they are rock solid if a little dated and that horrible java web interface

We currently use a 5300 as a nas for all our students shares but hopefully when it comes up for renewal we will switch back to a windows front end with iscsi storage on a new vnx.