AD Integrate Home Folders

[IAMCloud_Curt]

Hi all,

 

Clutching at straws here, a major cry for help so don't let me down!!! I'll cut the story short, moved into our new BSF school last year and we've got around 120 iMacs for both the Music and Media department. However, they've never really worked from the word go, and they never got setup right during the installation period by the Consultants who fitting all our kit. I won't be naming names, but I got left with alot of mess to fix on the MAC side of things.

 

It's all new tech for me, I've picked up alot of my Mac knowledge from just reading whitepapers and youtube, I can bind to our AD domain and use Workgroup Manager fine, and I've also setup Deploy Studio Admin recently. But now, I've hit a stumbling block, Music/Media teachers are both getting really stressed out with the fact when themselves or students log in, they don't have there Network Home folder mapped.

 

So I delved into it, began researching on how to get this working, I've tried so many things but I can't seem to get it working. I'm sure one of you have managed to get AD Home Folders to sync onto MAC OS. I've tried several methods via Workgroup Manager and configuring the Dock and Login Items, and I've also done this via Profile Manager on our Mac Server, pushed the settings out remotely and then downloaded the mobileconfig file and manually put them on the Mac but it still doesn't map the network home.

 

I've left 3 screenshots with you to have a look at the error and what is actually happening.

 

Much appreciated if anyone can help me out here, as they are beginning to lose patience and they think the WHOLE of IT is against them, I've tried reassuring them once or twice, but patience is running very low, so I need some help.

 

Thank you Edugeeker's!

 

[Brimstone]

After your users and home profile paths are created in AD - have your tried running the createhomedir command from Terminal? Assuming your AD plugin settings are correct on your server - specifically the 'Use UNC path...' - try running the command (in Terminal) below on your document (home folder) server:

sudo createhomedir -s

This command should query your server's search path (check the path using Directory Utility - located in /SystemLibrary/CoreServices) and find any users (preferably your AD network accounts - that's the -s option) that should have home folders on that server and create them. Note that this command nust be run as root - hence the sudo

To test - try creating a new AD user and point their profile to your Mac sharepoint - then run the command. You could also run the command on your Mac server to create an account for just the new user - just add their name at the end of the command above:

sudo createhomedir -s newusername

Hopefully one of these suggestions will work for you...

[Brimstone]

One other important thing to remember with music and media Apps such as Logic Pro x or Final Cut, they can not create content saved to a network drive. Projects have to be created locally then copied to the relevant share.

[2097]

My Mac users are AD

 

I map both there Windows and Mac Documents folder to the desktop . ( they are both located in there Home Drive)

 

Are you using Profile Manager ? i have a plist for this

 

Remember you dont want to map a drive really , you want to create a symlink too the individual folders in there home directory and display it on there desktop

Edited April 28, 2016 by 2097

[Decimas6]

My Mac users are AD

 

I map both there Windows and Mac Documents folder to the desktop . ( they are both located in there Home Drive)

 

Are you using Profile Manager ? i have a plist for this

 

Remember you dont want to map a drive really , you want to create a symlink too the individual folders in there home directory and display it on there desktop

 

Hey, would I be able to see this? I have been trying to configure our shared folders on Macs recently, (I've actually got a folder share working, just the students can see/access other's home folders/backup boxes!)

[2097]

Here it is , This goes in under a Computer group in Custom Settings

 

[Decimas6]

Here it is , This goes in under a Computer group in Custom Settings

 

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Thanks, I'll try this out when I can!

[ehg]

I've also found that you need to have the search domain in the DNS settings especially if your Windows domain has .local at the end of it. Macs really do not like domains with .local as in OSX can try to reference the local machine rather than the domain.

Once I added domain_name.local to my DNS settings on our Macs the home drives started to work again