AD Home Directory Not Being Mounted

[fndrbndr]

Greetings,

We recently got AD-integrated with our Macs, but I have a nagging little issue I was hoping you guys could assist me with.

Our users are authenticating with their AD accounts, and we’re also using OD on a Tiger server to do desktop management. This is all working fine, but when the users log in, their network home directories are NOT mapped to the desktop.

I have the location specified in AD Users & Computers, and the AD connector on the Mac client is set to “Force Local Home Directory on Startup Disk” AND “Use UNC path from AD”. My understanding is that this should keep the home directory on the local system, but also mount the network home directory and stick a shortcut on the desktop…but this isn’t happening.

Could some Workgroup Manager settings from the server possibly be preventing this? Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Donnie

[fndrbndr]

Figured this out…it was Workgroup Manager!

I had the “Login” preferences turned on and set to connect another network share, and for some reason it was mapping that share, but preventing the Home Directory from mapping. I “toggled” it (disabled the preference, then re-enabled it) and now both drives map. Nice!

Hope that helps anyone else having this issue. The lack of documentation on this has been a little frustrating.

Thanks,

Donnie

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