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The /Network directory gives the user access to file systems that are physically located on remote machines. The /Network directory has several purposes:
For networked user accounts (#1 above), /Network provides the Users directory:
Users |
Contains networked home directories... | |
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Administrator |
...for administrator accounts |
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userName |
...for specific users. The directory is typically named after login name. See The User's Home Directory for a description of contents. |
To provide structured access to networked applications and resources (#2 above), the directories under /Network mirror those under /System and /Local. For example, it is common to have /Network/Applications and /Network/Library just as there are /System/Applications and /System/Library (see How the Mac OS X File System is Organized for a more complete picture). This parallelism is designed to allow administrators to install site-specific applications and resources that override or complement those provided in the /System directories. See Search Paths for more information.
For access to servers of other types (#3 above), /Network provides the Servers subdirectory.