cuester Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Hello, It looks like when I bind my macs to active directory ( windows server 2012 r2) it is not correctly reading their home directory location. Does anyone know if you need to specify it in a certain place/way for it to map correctly?
furby Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 It picks up the Home Folder location from the AD, how do you have it formatted? No real reason a particular combination shouldn't work. Could you be more specific when you say "not correctly"? Also, what version of OS X? Have you un ticked "Force local home directory on startup disk" in the Direct Utility app?
cuester Posted March 6, 2015 Author Posted March 6, 2015 Okay so maybe I was light on the information. Here's what I know (little) In AD the home folder is \\ccrsb-01\Schools\Students_Home\HHS\thhsstu From my understanding in OSX ( This machine is running 10.10) it takes your home directory and links to it in the dock. On this machine it shows up as a question mark. If I manually connect to \\ccrsb-01\Schools\Students_Home\HHS\thhsstu it doesn't work but going to //ccrsb-01/Schools/Students_Home/HHS/thhsstu lets me see all the home directory files. Ya about that force local home directory...... Just checked and my eyes were skipping over the fact that it was checked. Possibly because it was greyed out. Looking at that now.
davidacland Posted March 12, 2015 Posted March 12, 2015 Hi, The Mac translates the \ into / automatically. A ? in the dock is quite common as the dock can load before the Mac has had a chance to connect to the network share. We normally mount the share via a login script instead and add to the dock using dockutil.
HodgeHi Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 What happens when you click on the ? Does it then change to the home dir after a few seconds?
alfatec Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Would it be possible to see a copy of your login script and what dockutil do you use? Cheers
cuester Posted April 29, 2015 Author Posted April 29, 2015 Finally figured it out. Turns out it was a permissions issue where it wouldn't mount to the root of their share but would map to sub folders. Changed the permissions and now it mounts the home directory correctly and has the link in the dock working
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