AD Magic Triagle AutoMount woes

Hi Guys, great site with a wealth of information – Great work.

Now onto my problems.

Setup :

We have 39 iMacs in a Mac suite – all on 10.6.8

We have a server 10.6.8

We have this Server OD bound to an Active Directory for Login etc – this works fine

We then have sharepoints setup using AFP on the Mac server to try and Mount users Home drives (Using AutoMount) this doesnt work – ive set the preferences up in WGM to put the users Home directoy on the Doc – it doesnt Mount and comes up with a Question mark – Ive checked the Path in inpspectors and it’s all correct – I’m controling prefere3nces Via an OD Group pulling the users from an AD Group. all the test account details are being pulled from AD – so if i change a setting in AD i.e the home directory path then this updates in Inpsectory when connected to that Users and AD via WGM. – Directory Util is all setup fine as it can see all settings from AD and authentifcate.

Can these settings be edited without touching AD? or do i just use local ldap ?

also if i click on the AD replica in WGM and then click on preferences it has managed preferences set for the AD side of things but when i try to edit these it doesnt let me save them ?? can somebody advise how i can set these ?

There isnt any error messages etc – it’s really starting to bug me now as something so simple is taking a lot of time to resolve –