Active Dir authentication, AFP home folders in the wrong place!!

[jwestlake]

Hi,

I’ve had this problem off and on… that is, it comes and goes, so I’m not really able to effectively troubleshoot it. My setup is this:
-Xserve G5, Mac OS X Server 10.4.7
-OD Master bound to AD for authentication
-Hosts AFP and SMB shares, all stored on Xserve RAID

On the RAID, I have a folder called Users (/Volumes/XserveRAID/Users) that is shared via AFP. The system Users folder (/Users) is not shared. In fact, nothing at all on the root drive is shared. All share points are on /Volumes/XserveRAID/. All Mac users’ home directory profiles are pointed to \\servername\Users\username (in Active Directory Users and Computers application on our domain controller). Their home directories mount automatically when they log into their client machines (also bound to AD).

The problem is this; at seemingly random times, a user’s home folder will all of a sudden be created in /Users on the server, and it will not use the /Volumes/XserveRAID/Users/ folder. I will clean out /Users every now and again, but the errant home folders show back up. The only folder that should be in /Users is the local admin.

Since /Users is not even shared, how is it doing this? Why is it that sometimes the /Volumes/XserveRAID/Users share is used (I know this because there are users’ files in their folders in the proper place) and sometimes it’s going to /Users? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!! 🙂

Going slightly mad,

Jason

[jwestlake]

The only local users I have are the admin, diradmin (for OD) and an FTP user. All others are AD users. The admin is the only one who logs in at the console.

Thanks!

Jason

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