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    From TimS@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 29 20:01:31 2022
    What are these two folders for?

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    Tim

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to nospam on Wed Jun 29 20:47:11 2022
    nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Usually they are not used for anything - especially on non-corporate Macs.

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesn’t exist on my Mac.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 29 16:34:20 2022
    In article <[email protected]>, TimS
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    What are these two folders for?

    you mean /home and /net (note the *forward* slash):

    <https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/295679/creating-a-directory-i n-home-on-macos-sierra>
    IIRC /home and /net can be used by directory services like AD or OD.
    They are mount points created by the auto_master file. Usually they
    are not used for anything - especially on non-corporate Macs.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to Alan B on Wed Jun 29 17:47:56 2022
    In article <t9idof$1ho9k$[email protected]>,
    Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:


    Usually they are not used for anything - especially on non-corporate Macs.

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesn�t exist on my Mac.

    maybe not. none of my macs are corporate, yet almost all of them have
    both.

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  • From TimS@21:1/5 to nospam on Wed Jun 29 21:18:11 2022
    On 29 Jun 2022 at 21:34:20 BST, nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>, TimS <[email protected]> wrote:

    What are these two folders for?

    you mean /home and /net (note the *forward* slash):

    /home and /net (with forward slash) is what I wrote in the title of this thread. Perhaps you need new glasses.

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    Tim

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  • From David Brooks@21:1/5 to nospam on Wed Jun 29 23:34:05 2022
    On 29/06/2022 22:47, nospam wrote:
    In article <t9idof$1ho9k$[email protected]>,
    Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:


    Usually they are not used for anything - especially on non-corporate Macs.

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesn¹t exist on my Mac.

    maybe not. none of my macs are corporate, yet almost all of them have
    both.

    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    A laptop when travelling perhaps? I use an iPad Pro for that.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 29 19:23:43 2022
    In article <yr4vK.294451$[email protected]>, David Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:


    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    furniture.

    <https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2385748/mac8.0.jpg>

    A laptop when travelling perhaps? I use an iPad Pro for that.

    they let you out of the asylum?

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 30 07:22:12 2022
    Am 30.06.22 um 00:34 schrieb David Brooks:
    On 29/06/2022 22:47, nospam wrote:
    In article <t9idof$1ho9k$[email protected]>,
    Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:


    Usually they are not used for anything - especially on non-corporate Macs.

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesn¹t exist on my Mac.

    maybe not. none of my macs are corporate, yet almost all of them have
    both.

    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    Guess why! At home I use a large MBP and for traveling a MBAir. They are
    kept synchronised and important data is stored remote and accessible
    from anywhere. Even for my Linux machines.

    A laptop when travelling perhaps? I use an iPad Pro for that.

    iPads are toys but certainly not a serious computing device. I use mine
    less and less. The way I use computer there is no reasonable use case.

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to nospam on Thu Jun 30 06:25:23 2022
    nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:
    In article <yr4vK.294451$[email protected]>, David Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:


    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    furniture.

    <https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2385748/mac8.0.jpg>

    I guess I could use my Apple laptops as MacBookends?

    Looks like someone is trying to hijack another thread :-(

    If there any connection then with /home being the base for user accounts in other Unix like systems?

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 30 12:03:48 2022
    Am 30.06.22 um 01:23 schrieb nospam:
    In article <yr4vK.294451$[email protected]>, David Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:


    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    furniture.

    <https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2385748/mac8.0.jpg>

    Extremely stylish but a bit antique.


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  • From David Brooks@21:1/5 to Joerg Lorenz on Thu Jun 30 12:22:37 2022
    On 30/06/2022 11:03, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
    Am 30.06.22 um 01:23 schrieb nospam:
    In article <yr4vK.294451$[email protected]>, David Brooks
    <[email protected]> wrote:


    Why do you, indeed why does anyone, need more than /one/ Apple Mac computer?

    furniture.

    <https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2385748/mac8.0.jpg>

    Extremely stylish but a bit antique.

    I rather like that furniture! :-D

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to TimS on Tue Jul 5 10:07:10 2022
    On 29/06/2022 21:01, TimS wrote:
    What are these two folders for?

    They're part of autofs/automount, which mounts directories on demand
    from an NFS server. NFS and autofs/automount has outlasted their inventors..

    /net is a way to explore all the available mounts from all responding
    NFS servers, and is quite a handy tool in those environments.

    Look at /etc/auto* for the config.

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    Chris

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