====== Using /home on OsX ======

On Linux, /home is where the users live, this differs from Solaris and other Unixes for example. 
Apple Macs use /Users, so trying to replicate a linux type setup for consistency is not possible without some changes.

''ls /home'' shows no files or directories but you can't delete it to replace it with a symlink to /Users. This is because it is in use by the automounter:-

  andrew $ mount
  ...edited...
  map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
  andrew $  

This is controlled by /etc/auto_master, so you can edit this file and comment out ''/home  auto_home  -nobrowse,hidefromfinder''. You will need to reboot to make this change stick. You should be able to create a symlink ''ls -s /Users /home''.

Points to be aware of:-

  - Darwin's file system is case insensitive, Linux and Unix is very much case sensitive, so a files ''test1'' and ''TEST1'' will be different, but on MAC they won't. Not sure how a remote mount to Linux will affect this at the moment.
  - UID / GID, probably won't match either between Linux / Unix and MAC unless you have taken step to synchronise them. This will cause problems too mounting remote filesystems.