smb mount AD home drive at login

[adrianjones]

i can mount users Active Directory home drives at login if the path is in the form //server/share$. Is there any way to mount AD Drives automatically to a lower lever i.e //server/share$/userfolder?

[2ilent8cho]

Yes thats how we do it here. We have the 'Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location ticked' and it mounts it.

 

[adrianjones]

Thanks, just tried that no joy. it is mounting on the //server/share$ and its showing all the users in that share, but it is still not mounting on the lower level. Could it be the NTFS permissions on the share? do i have to unhide it? Im running the latest OSX el capitan.

 

The guide i been using home folders in windows is this https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2008/06/30/automatic-creation-of-user-folders-for-home-roaming-profile-and-redirected-folders/

Edited September 9, 2016 by adrianjones

[3s-gtech]

We found that the permissions on the share need to be set so that the students own security group (in AD) can read the root share - //server/share$ - but obviously they don't need to be able to read any of the sub-folders other than their own. Without that, the home drives wouldn't work. It means that inheritance needs to be disabled on all of the individual home areas, and it can be a little trickier to manage.

 

https://welsheduit.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/os-x-10-10-yosemite-and-ad-home-directories-via-smb-fixed/

Edited September 9, 2016 by 3s-gtech

[Cazale]

Any reason you can't just do "net use //server/share$/%username% ?

[pantscat]

I think the user will need traverse folder permissions on the root share - nothing more than that though.

@Cazale - can't do that on a Mac.

[Cazale]

@Cazale - can't do that on a Mac.

 

Good point. I didn't notice which forum it was in! (I saw the thread on the front page).