AD Logins OD Home Directories…

[mezmerrick]

Hello all!

We have a setup in which our Xserve uses our Active Directory logons and Home Folders.

We would like to change it so that when a user logs on to our Mac’s they have a separate Home folder which resides on the Xserve, and when they log in to the Windows machines they have their AD Home folders which reside on the Windows servers (which obviously already exist).

Is it possible, and if so would someone be kind enough to guide me through it?

Thanks in advance!

[NitroPye]

I was able to do this via record augments. I have an OD server that has almost no native users only augmented users.

Basically the principal is you augment the AD user record with OD properties for NFSHomeDirectory and HomeDirectory then have those point to whatever fileserver you want them to be when the user logs into a machine bound to both OD and AD.

Check out these links:

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/MacOSXServer/RN-DirectoryServicesSession549/index.html
https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20071210105328355
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/files/scripts/create_augments.zip

One thing to note that burned a whole day of my time: when you copy the XML plist data from those tutorials into workgroup manager they will bring over bad characters and formatting that will make the xml validation of the plist fail but there will be no warnings, your clients just don’t pick up the change. So make sure anything you copy and paste into the plist portion of those tutorials goes thru TextMate or some other plain text editor.

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