Troubleshooting Automounting – Panther Server

Some of my shares are not automounting.

Server is 10.38
Clients 10.42

The user home folders do automount on their desktop.

I’ve setup automounts as per Richard Maclemale’s site:
http://homepage.mac.com/richardmaclemale/articles/osx_server/lesson_5.html

Gone into sharing
Ticked share it out.
Under protocols given it a mount path
Ticked AFP and
Allow Guest Access
Ticked custom mount point and called it ‘User Public’

I’ve also tried giving it to them by putting shortcuts in their group ‘login items’ preference but it doesn’t show up.

If i do a command+K I can connect to that sharepoint.

So for troubleshooting any of the following would be helpful:

– A simple script or resources on same that creates an automounting share.

– the sharepoints util – I’ve used it on clients and it works great – is it compatible with osx server as a quick workround til i solve this?

– Info on what happens under the hood when creating automounts so I can go look at the config files.

– Anything else my primitive Mac newbie brain didn’t think of 😉

Much TIA