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Axel: Um... it works fine for us. I just tested it about 10 seconds ago (names have been changed to protect the guilty): me@linuxbox> ssh myaccount@macclient Password: macclient:~ myaccount$ pwd /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp/myaccount macclient:~ myaccount$ echo $HOME /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp/myaccount This is OS X Server 10.5.5 and a 10.5.5 client, with an extremely vanilla configuration. After fighting the setup for two days to try to get it to mount somewhere *other* than /Network/Servers/blahblahblah, I left it alone and put in the following link on the client (we only have one, but could have more without any problems, as far as I can tell): /people -> /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp And: macclient:~ myaccount$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s2 465Gi 24Gi 441Gi 6% / devfs 107Ki 107Ki 0Bi 100% /dev fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home map -fstab 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Network/Servers trigger 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp afp_05oXza0007Ge0000oM0000VU-1.2d00003a 298Gi 82Gi 216Gi 28% /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp I think this "homedir mounting" feature is a function of using OSX Server, rather than vanilla OS X, to do the AFP exporting, which is why we are using Server. Best, -- Steve Lane System, Network and Security Administrator Doudna Lab Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group UC Berkeley On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:51:44PM -0800, Axel Brunger wrote: > Brian, > > There is one disadvantage with using AFP rather than wide open > (potentially > > insecure) NFS mounts. Remote login via "ssh" into a client > computer won't by default mount the > > user's AFP home directory. While it is possible to manually > > mount the AFP home directory it may preclude other users from using > the client > > computer from the console. This feature of AFP is due to user-specific > > mounting of the remote disk on the client computer. I assume the same > > feature would apply to Kerberized NFS mounts, but I haven't tried it. > > This limitation of AFP requires some thought when using idle client > computers > > as compute servers. We're using the Mac Server Xgrid service, along > > with the freely available "GridStuffer.app" application to make > submission of "batch" jobs > > to all our Macs relatively easy. > > Axel > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Brian Mark wrote: > > Francis, > From your response and others to my question about OS X server 10.5, > AFP seems to be the preferred networking protocol over NFS. Yes, in > our case the RAID is connected to a G5 (via firewire 800 - which > provides surprisingly good transfer rates BTW) that is running OS X > server 10.5 . I'll try AFP for the user home directories. > Thanks, > Brian > > Axel T. Brunger > Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute > Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology > Stanford University > Web: http://atbweb.stanford.edu > Email: [log in to unmask] > Phone: +1 650-736-1031 > Fax: +1 650-745-1463