Guest Access required for automounting?

[Flash]

In a managed client setting w/network homedirs, is it necessary to have afp Guest access enabled? I was under the impression that the bound client machine needed to mount the “/Network/Servers/servername/homedir_sharename” as a Guest (at startup) so that when a user logs into the client, the homedir within the share can be found. I seem to remember a lot of “user homedir cannot be located errors” when Guest access was not enabled.

[macaide]

If you are using Kerberos then you can disable Guest access and everything will continue to work as expected.

[Flash]

So, you’re verifying that Guest Access must be enabled if using “Standard” afp authentication (so that automounts work correctly)?

Kerberos scares even the most seasoned Sys-Admins.

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