Windows Network Shares - Mac OSX

[cshephard]

Hi everyone

 

 

I have my mac network set up with AD and OD. Users log in with their AD logins and their windows home areas and shared area mount on login. Originally we turned off the local home folder option so that their windows area was the main one and they wouldn't end up saving things locally. The problem we had with this was, the library settings folder created itself in their windows areas and a lot of these were corrupting causing students to get lots of keychain messages and sometimes they were unable to access certain things. So to cure this I turned the local folder back on so that this library folder was saved on the mac instead. Now default save location is the local area and despite making guides and telling people how to access the windows area, they still save locally...

 

Does anyone know of a way to make this work with having local areas turned off, or changing the default path to the windows shares instead?

I cant even place the windows share in the finder sidebar which would be useful.

 

Thanks in advance

[nickalmond]

Hello.

 

We have recently invested in a class set of iMacs and are looking for a similar solution; we are currently looking into finding a way of hiding the local user area from finder and replacing it with the SMB network share rather than disabling the library all together. It should be a simply case of amending the finder.plist/sidebar.plist files but so far we haven't been very successful.

 

I don't have an answer for you unfortunately but we are in talks with a 3rd party with the aim of getting this working. The work is being planned in approximately 2 weeks (just after Christmas) so if you don't receive a solution by then, let me know and hopefully I will be able to provide some information.

 

Nick

[cshephard]

In the days of WGM it was easy to edit the PLISTS and setup the sidebar how you wanted, but in the newer OS's and PM you can't do it. If you could tell me how you get around it, that would be amazing. I have tried for ages to sort this out.

 

Thanks

[cshephard]

Did you have any joy with this? I forgot to mention before, turning off local home folders means you cannot use imovie as it will not let you save the library on a network location.