Q:

Mac OS X Symlink on home dir

I use Linux as my primary desktop, my path is on this workstation is /home/matt, I have a good few places and configs that I sync between Linux and my Mac via Dropbox, on my mac my home path is /Users/matt. e.g. local bookmarks are sync via Firefox Weave (like XMarks) such as file://home/matt/My Dropbox/offlinepages/jquery-help.html
I'm trying to symlink /home/matt to /Users/Matt on my mac so everything aligns equally, but I get Operation not permitted even under a sudo bash.

A:

You need to disable automount.  Use sudo edit /etc/auto_master to comment out the /home line.  My auto_master file looks like:
#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master            # Use directory service
/net                    -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
# /home                 auto_home       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static

Then run sudo automount -v -c.
You should see the output:
automount: /net updated
automount: /home unmounted

