On 4/4/2012 4:09 PM, David L. Willson wrote: > Why wouldn't I just set a network account's home directory to > /net/server/homes/username? > this is a network share, right? the 'why not' is whether or not that network filesystem supports POSIX-style file permissions.. if it doesn't many things start breaking, quickly. NFS, no problem. SMB, not so much