AD authentication working but help needed with network home

[stephen]

Hi,

I have managed to get my eMacs and also our G4 running OS X server at work authenticating against our Windows 2000 Active Directory server, using your “Active Directory Integration in 3 Hours or Less” document. I can log in and it all works fine. The next step I need is for the user to get their network home directory off the Windows 2000 server too, but I am not sure how to do this.

Here’s our set up:

Citrix terminal server, hosting Active Directory for whole network and user home directories for Windows users.

eMacs using NetInfo to authenticate on a G4 server running OS X server 10.2.6

Both server and eMacs can authenticate against Active DIrectory- I just need them to mount the user’s home from the windows box!

Any step by step help welcome!

Hope you can help!

Stephen

[stephen]

Great- I look forward to seeing the example!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info. Could you just point out which parts would need to be chaned? Obviously the w2k.afp548.com is where I put the DC’s name, but for example is /Users on the top line what I need to type in, or is this item where my users storred in AD (in my case, FixedPol)?

Also is there anything, apart from the domain name, in the last line that I would have to change?

Finally, where is this ‘mounts’ file?

Sorry for the questions but this is my first go on OS X server!!

Thanks again!
Stephen

[stephen]

Hi Mactroll,

I went into NetInfo Manager, but under /Mounts, I only had name: mounts.

So I changed this as you specified. Then I added new properties for the other items.

*name: win2k.afp548.com:/Users — this is the name of your win2k server, plus the path to the sharepoint. If you are calling the sharepoint that your homefolders will be located “Homes” and you win2k server is windows.example.com then this would be “name: windows.example.com:/Homes” *

Is this share point the one I made on the OS X server, or the share point on the AD server where the windows home folders are stored?

dir: /Network/Servers was an option I had to add in, along with the vfstype. Opts: you say to leave alone, but it isnt in the list. Should I create an entry, and if is what are the values?

net did not exist either.

Last of all, the url==smb:// AUTH……. where does this go?

Thanks for your time,

Stephen

[Anonymous]

Anyone have anything else to help me with this?….please?

[Author]

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