Active Directory auth. PC users with home share on Mac OS X?

[Robert.Staflin]

I’ve followed the document “Integrating Mac OS X With Active Directory” from Apple, and with a bit of guessing set up an AD domain where Mac users can authenticate and get their home folder mounted from a Mac OS X Server.

What I haven’t been able to do, however, is to log in as that same user from a PC machine, and get the same home folder mounted. I suspect this has to do with the setup made (as Apple wants it) in ADSI Edit, with the homeDirectory attribute set as <home_Dir><url>afp://bigmac.corp.apple.com/Homes</url><path>jdm</path></home_Dir>. Trying to change the “afp://” part to “smb://” doesn’t help much.

If I’ve got it right, setting up the home folder in AD (for PC users) is done with the “Active Directory Users and Computers” tool. On the profile tab of the user, one is supposed to specify a drive letter to use for mounting the share, and then specify the fileserver share with \\server_name\shared_folder\user_logon_name . This (apart from the fact that I can’t get it to work with home folders on the Mac OS X 10.2 Server) makes it impossible to log on from a Mac OS machine…

Can anyone point me in the right direction, or just plain tell me to try again?

Thanks,
/Robert Staflin

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