Hello,
I am authenticating Mac user against our Win2003 Active Directory server. I am trying to get user “Home” folders to reside on the server, rather than locally. I am using the OS 10.3.6 Active Directory plug-in to authenticate to the server. Authentication works fine. I used dsconfigad to disable localhome folders. Mount style is SMB. I used dsconfigad -show to verify AD settings and they appear correct. I also used dscl commands to read more detailed information about the user account and all parameters look fine. However, when I attempt to login to the system as the user, I get a dialog that reads:

“You are unable to log in to the user account “mac” at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred. The home folder for the user account is located on an AFP or SMB server. Contact your system administrator for help”.

I have the server Home folder shared out with a folder inside of it for the mac user. I used the connect feature of the Profile tab of the user account to set the Home folder location as \\servername\HOME\%username%. where username is “mac” . the folder permissions seem correct.

I’m not certain what the error dialog means or what the issue is. It seems like a pretty straight forward setup to configure.

Any assistance as to what to look for would be very much appreciated.
thank you
greg