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208 Chapter 10 Managing Preferences
4 Click Mobility, click Account Creation, click Creation, and then set the management
setting to Always.
5 Select “Create mobile account when user logs in to network account.”
This option must be selected to enable a mobile account for the selected account.
6 Click Options and then set the management setting to Always.
7 Select a “Home folder location” option.
If you select “at path,” enter the path to a folder on an external drive in the format
/Volumes/DriveName/Folder, replacing DriveName with the name of the external drive
and Folder with a folder on the external drive. If you don’t specify a volume, the
location is on the startup volume.
If you select “user chooses,” choose a type of volume from the pop-up menu to allow
the user to store his or her local home folder on that type of volume.
8 Click Apply Now.
Creating External Accounts
An external account is a mobile account where the local home folder is stored on an
external drive, allowing the user access to his or her account on any computer with
Mac OS X v10.5 or later.
The user’s local home folder is stored entirely on the external drive and leaves no
remnants on computers. External accounts also save hard disk space on the computer,
which is especially important if you don’t set an account expiration or if many users
create mobile accounts with local home folders on the same computer.
You can choose one of three ways to determine the location of the external account.
All of these ways can be used to set up external accounts:
 If you set the location to “on startup volume,” the mobile account doesn’t
immediately become an external account. After creating the local home folder, if the
user starts target disk mode on the computer and connects it to a client computer,
the mobile account then becomes an external account.
 If you set the location to “at path,” you can enter the path for the mobile account’s
local home folder. If you enter a path for an external drive, a local home folder is
created on the external drive after the user logs in.
 If you set the location to “user chooses volume,” when the user logs in, a window
appears allowing the user to choose whether to store the local home folder on the
computer or on an external drive. If the user chooses an external drive, a local home
folder is created on the external drive.
To create an external account:
1 In Workgroup Manager, click Preferences.
2 Make sure the correct directory is selected and you are authenticated.