Mobile User Account Bootable From External Drive?

[ThePOWER56]

Hey, So I am now required to use my school's iMacs, and am not able to use my MacBook Pro that I have always brought to school and used. But there were new rules put in place this year, and I'm no longer able to use it when i have free time in things like study halls. I have programs and mostly just video I would like to edit in Final Cut Pro, I would like to use. Besides that I hate putting my personal logins on public devices and all of my passwords are randomized on 1Password anyways. I was reading on moving the home folder to an external drive but there isn't too much information I've read on it that is very recent in regards to OSX Sierra. I would ideally like to just be able to copy my user profile with a few of my applications and such onto my 1TB USB 3 external drive from my MacBook Pro, and then load the profile off of the hard drive from the iMac, since the iMacs use a network user profile I wasn't sure if that would be a possibility. Or maybe even some way I could have my laptop act as a server for my user profile in my bag while on the same wifi network? Any ideas would be great, thanks

The iMacs are 5K 2015 27in iMacs, and I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15in with Touch Bar

 

[DeltaMac]

hmm.... Yes... How do you bypass the school's network security, so you can do your own private video "editing"? You should be aware of what that sounds like.
Sounds like your school is simply limiting personal use of their network, and they will likely take a dim view of your attempts to circumvent their (inconvenient) rules.
When you called those school computers "public devices", that's not really accurate. They are controlled by your school, and the word "public" doesn't really apply here. Those iMacs are (or should be) as locked-down as the school can make them, trying to keep them convenient to use, and available to you. They should (rightly) try to prevent your personal "hobbies" on school-owned computers.
The two school districts where I have worked as a tech, banned the use of flash drives (or other student file storage) as a security risk, and would only allow under limited conditions, usually the teacher or instructor had the final say on allowing external drives of any kind.

 

[ThePOWER56]

hmm.... Yes... How do you bypass the school's network security, so you can do your own private video "editing"? You should be aware of what that sounds like.
Sounds like your school is simply limiting personal use of their network, and they will likely take a dim view of your attempts to circumvent their (inconvenient) rules.
When you called those school computers "public devices", that's not really accurate. They are controlled by your school, and the word "public" doesn't really apply here. Those iMacs are (or should be) as locked-down as the school can make them, trying to keep them convenient to use, and available to you. They should (rightly) try to prevent your personal "hobbies" on school-owned computers.
The two school districts where I have worked as a tech, banned the use of flash drives (or other student file storage) as a security risk, and would only allow under limited conditions, usually the teacher or instructor had the final say on allowing external drives of any kind.

Yeah I gotcha. Lets just ditch that idea. I'm thinking maybe I'll just migrate all of my files to my external drive, and O can run my final cut project from there since the iMacs just got Final Cut. Do you know if theres a way I could access my MacBooks files through a USB C to Thunderbolt connection or something? Basically I'm working on a huge Final Cut Pro project and would like to use my SSD off of my MacBook instead of the slow external drive I have, since I have like 250gb of footage I'm constantly scrubbing through and rendering. I would be able to just run a wire as nobody would care and wouldn't even notice, since they're completely fine with external drives and flash drive.

 

[DeltaMac]

I guess you next step is to find out if you can copy files onto the internal SSD. I would think the school would help out when this is for a school project.

Or, get your own faster external. SSDs are currently dropping in price.