[bartman00]

Using "dsconfigad -mountstyle smb -localhome disable" and the AD plugin Using a Windows 2003 server and user accounts. I've got authentication and storing home folders on the SMB share working but I can only store the home folders in //server/profiles. I want to store them in //server/patronvideo but when I log in on the mac with that path specified I get the error message that the home folders has been deleted or missing, ie it can't create it.

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out why. The permissions on the shares are the same the permissions on the directories are the same, I can log in from a windows client and it creates the folders correctly, I can browse to the share on the mac and make changes. I can't figure it out.

We did have a group policy set up for users in a container that user the /profiles share to force there documents folder and stuff to the /profiles share. No such GP is set up for the users container for the macs and I blocked policy inheritance to there OU. Have a been clear enough?

In short, it works when using //server/profiles but not //server/"anything else"

Thanks
Bart

[bartman00]

bump

[bartman00]

well I guess I'll reply to my thread with the fix

in AD users and computers you have to specify the path in not only the home folder section but also in the profiles too.

I'm still ironing out some strange premissions. i have to give users read write access to the root of the share for it to work also. The user specific full controll windows gives to the usres share dosn't seem to be good enough.

Hope this helps someone..

Bart

[bartman00]

I'm I the only person doing this.. or even trying to do it? This is really really central for intigrating macs into the windows corprate enviroment.

Bart

[ul1984]

i havent done this myself, but im using a FreeBSD server to store my home dirs(using NFS), and then i use NIS to authenticate, it works great, since this is similiar, ill try to help...

where in the filesystem does the SMB share get mounted on the mac?

if you run "lookupd -d" and then type "userWithName: <username>" in the lookupd console, whats the path to the users home according to lookupd?

[bartman00]

The path should be /wpl-image01/patronvideo/bob/

Her's what's lookupd's giving me "/Netwrok/Server/Wpl-image01/patronvideo/bob/"

Strange, no?

Thanks for taking a look,
Bart

[ul1984]

Originally posted by bartman00:
The path should be /wpl-image01/patronvideo/bob/

Her's what's lookupd's giving me "/Netwrok/Server/Wpl-image01/patronvideo/bob/"

Strange, no?

Thanks for taking a look,
Bart

my servers name is "eks" and im mouting the /home on that server, i used NFS manager to add the nfs share so that it mounts automatically at boot, and this is where it got mounted:

/Network/Servers/eks/home

so i guess apple wants you to have your network homedirs there, so id suggest you try to mount your SMB share at /Network/Servers/Wpl-image01/patronvideo/bob

or if you could change where lookupd thinks the homedir should be, but i think that will be harder.