Home Dir on Network Storage... How to?

[isaiahryon]

I used to keep home directories on external FireWire Drives but wanted to move to a Network Storage for home use. I bought a Buffalo 160 NAS yesterday and was quite sad to find no instructions for setup with macs.
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=71&categoryid=16

I have accessed the NAS's admin page through its ip address in safari and setup shared folders which I can mount. How do I set up my Home directories on this NAS? I always used NetInfo before to put the Home directories on the external FireWire HD. I have read several Discussions on automounting and have tried to follow them but with no success. Is this even possible?

I had a little bit of time today to try some tests. The first thing I did was create a test account called testme and then copied its user directory to the NAS. I then went to netinfo and changed its home to /Volumes/WORKGROUP\;HD-HLAN3DF/testme I got this from dropping the home directory from the NAS into the terminal window. I then deleted the home directory on the internal HD of the PB. This is all how I would have setitup if I was using an external Home dir on a firewire hd.

When I restarted I logged into the testme account was suprised when it came up. However it was not the external Home Directory on the NAS. infact I have no clue where or what it logged into. Does OSX create a guest account if there is invalid data in the netinfo? I knew that it wasn't going to work this way because I amout of my league on this network server. Do I need to setup an automount in the netinfo first and then tie in the home directory with that?

I changed the netinfo home info to point to /Volumes/WORKGROUP\;HD-HLAN3DF/share/testme since share is the name of the setup partition on the NAS. I then did one quick test by dropping the music folder of the testme home directory that came up into the Terminal which showed as /Volumes/WORKGROUP\\\;HD-HLAN3DF/share/testme/Music I then mounted actual NAS and droped the Music folder from the testme home dir into terminal and it showed /Volumes/WORKGROUP\;HD-HLAN3DF/share/testme/Music.

What am I doing wrong here? somebody please help me. I want to learn.

I would appreciate any help or links.

[Las_Vegas]

I just setup one of these for a client a couple months ago. What I did was connect the drive directly to a PC notebook (It would also work to use a Mac with Virtual PC) and setup the IP address according to the instructions. This allowed me to run the Setup program for the unit and make the initial settings. First, passwords and the drive's name was set. Since I was using a Linksys Router for the office, I set the IP and Router addresses to 192.168.1.50 and 192.168.1.1 respectively.

Of course as soon as this was set, the direct connection was lost. Then I could moved it to the router, and log onto the drive via a browser on any machine in the network at the 192.168.1.50 address. Then I was able to setup the folders and users accounts on the drive

I agree. I didn't like the need to use a PC initially to setup the drive. This just didn't make much sense to me, but once setup, it works like a charm.