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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 <nospam@nospam.invalid> 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 timstreater@greenbee.net on Wed Jun 29 16:34:20 2022
    In article <ji3pcrF4lvuU1@mid.individual.net>, TimS
    <timstreater@greenbee.net> 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$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>,
    Alan B <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.invalid> wrote:


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

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesnąt 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 <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    In article <ji3pcrF4lvuU1@mid.individual.net>, TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> 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$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>,
    Alan B <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.invalid> wrote:


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

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesnÂąt 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 nomail@afraid.org on Wed Jun 29 19:23:43 2022
    In article <yr4vK.294451$i8Z9.261110@fx09.ams1>, David Brooks <nomail@afraid.org> 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$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>,
    Alan B <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.invalid> wrote:


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

    So that explains why /home is empty and /net doesnÂąt 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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    Gutta cavat lapidem (Ovid)

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to nospam on Thu Jun 30 06:25:23 2022
    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <yr4vK.294451$i8Z9.261110@fx09.ams1>, David Brooks <nomail@afraid.org> 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$i8Z9.261110@fx09.ams1>, David Brooks <nomail@afraid.org> 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$i8Z9.261110@fx09.ams1>, David Brooks
    <nomail@afraid.org> 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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