Mapping AD Home Directory To Desktop HELP NEEDED!

[ptotham]

Limited Mac experience

 

Our Apple Mac setup was done by a 3rd party company and I didnt have any involvmenet with it, recently our mac mini server hard drive died, so after replacing the drives I rebuilt the system:

 

Setup:

 

OXS 10.6.8 on mac mini server

Windows Server 2012 for file server

OSX 10.6.2 On 12 Imacs

OSX 10.8.5 on 7 Imacs

Workgroup Manager 10.6.3

AdmitMac v5 (for Macs running 10.6.2)

AdmitMac v7 (for Macs running 10.8.5)

 

 

I am trying to set the system with out having to use admitmac (AdmitMac version restricting what version of OSX I can go with)

 

I have binded a client to AD and OD and can login in using my test AD account, but the home drive doesnt appear in finder or on the desktop like it use to, I can manually mapped to the home drive when logged on as the user.

 

Even when I rebuilt one of the clients and tried using admitmac I couldn't get the home drives to appear.

 

Could some point in the direction of where I am going wrong with these MAC have been working on this for 3 weeks in total now.

[furby]

If you rebuilt the server, you must be doing something right.

 

It could be as simple as having "Force Local Home Directory on startup disk" untucked and Use UNC path from Active Directory... ticked.

http://i.imgur.com/MoViU1M.png

 

Directory utility should be in \System\Library\Core Services\

 

Don't know how or if you can set that from Workgroup manager

[ptotham]

Hi Furby

 

thanks for the getting back to me, I can get the network drives to appear on the dock but have to allow list folders permission for everyone on the route of share as apple mac require that windows devices dont, but i dont want to open the shares up like that and never have had it like that even before the mac server died. we use to have an icon on desktop that use to be to a shortcut to there network area but I have know Idea how it was done. we were using admitmac and tried installing that but couldnt get that to work either, i would like to try advoid using admitmac if possible.

 

Paul

[furby]

Yep, with "Local home folders on startup disk" you don't get folder redirection but you do get the network home folder in the dock.

 

I don't think you need to have them open to all and if users can read/write then all should be well. That said, the EVERYONE group has Read share permissions to the route share in my setup (restrictions then set in security/ntfs permissions.)

 

Maybe you could setup a test share to see if it makes a difference?

 

Also, what do you get for the folder paths like http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/141311-ad-od-user-folder-default-save.html (save me typing it out)?

 

I don't know how you put the desktop shortcut in WGM as I don't use it. I could load it up and find the setting when I get back on site.