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Chapter 1

Home directories are an example of how some Mac OS X processes collaborate to deﬁne and

use NetInfo data. The Finder can display your home directory automatically because it

retrieves its location from your NetInfo user record. But making home directories available is

more complicated than simply adding data to a NetInfo user record. It involves such ﬁle

system actions as creating folders with particular privileges on an available ﬁle server. And for

a remote home directory to be made visible on a user’s Desktop, the partition (or share)

containing that home directory must be deﬁned as a mount (or share point) and the mount

must also have a NetInfo record.

Mounts

are Network File System (NFS) or AFP directories that have been set up as share

points so that their contents are visible to other computers on the network.

You can set up a NetInfo record that makes a share point automatically visible in the Finder of

a Mac OS X computer by using the Sharing module of Server Admin. For example, you can

make volumes and ﬁles associated with share points visible in

/Network/Applications

/Network/Library

/Network/Servers

/Network/Users

Architectural Elements of NetInfo

The way you make NetInfo data accessible to processes that run on individual Mac OS X

computers is by distributing the data among domains that are visible to those computers. A

domain

is a collection of administrative information that is stored in a NetInfo database.

Local Data

Every Mac OS X computer has a local NetInfo domain. A local domain’s administrative data is

visible

only

to processes running on the computer where the domain resides. It is the ﬁrst

domain consulted when a user logs in or performs some other operation that uses data

stored in NetInfo.

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