Active directory with OSX home server creates home folders with wrong permissions

[jasonw]

Hi

I’m having a very strange issue here. We have an Active Directory domain (on Windows 2003 Server) with home profiles being served on an intel xserve running 10.4.8.

Here is the scenario:

If I log into windows as a domain admin account, open Active Directory Users & Computers, and set the Home Folder (mapped to drive H:) to the user’s folder (whcih already exists) on the xserve, it gives me the standard “change permissions?” question. Just like it says in the “AD/OD Integration document” (which we followed to the letter as far as the ad/od setup goes), it doesn’t seem to matter whether you answer yes or no to this.

If the folder doesn’t exist, it gives me a “can’t create home folder because you don’t have create access on the server” error. Then it creates it anyway…

in any case, the folder it creates (or just changes perms on if it already exists), which i specify for the user’s home folder, is OWNED BY THE USER I WAS LOGGED IN AS WHEN I MADE THE SETTING IN “Users & Computers” instead of the user i’m making the setting FOR.

any ideas here?

thanks so much for all of your help

Jason Woyak

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