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Greenturtle

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Nov 2, 2008
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Hi Guys,

I remember a colleague explaining this concept too me a while ago. I'm not sure if this was just a Mac OS X Server thing. But he was describing how you could take your home folder off your Mac, place it on a USB/External HDD. Plug it into another Mac and it would appear as a potential 'log in' option on the user accounts screen?

I can come up with various ways you could carry your Mac with you on some kind of Bootable Time Machine backup, but the idea of having it as a login option along side someone else User Accounts seems quite cool.

Has anyone else ever come across this before?

Thanks
 
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