Home Directories for PC’s

[Ross]

Talking to Apple and through my own efforts there doesn’t seem to be a way to have home directories for PC users on a domain member server. According to Apple home directories for PC users can only reside on the PDC?

Anyone know of a way around this? Fancy login script maybe?

[Ross]

Okay I tried this myself and it didn’t work. What I mean by didn’t work is that the home directories would not map when I user logged in. But the user could login via the PDC (the home directory would not be mapped but my login script would work that mapped other shares).After I was logged in I was able to browse to the other server and see my home directory.

My problem is the mapping of the users home directory. this would only work on the PDC… I even called Apple and they told me the same thing. So was I misinformed and if so why wouldn’t it work for me?

It seemed like it should work seeing how I could browse to the second server and see the home directory on the root of server along with other shares. This is exactly what happens when its on the PDC except the drive will map.

[Ross]

Are you saying to manually enter the home directory in WGM? Because right now I’m just selecting it from a list of shares (AFP) this has always work for me in the past. This shouldn’t matter but the all users use both mac’s and pc’s.

[Ross]

errrr.. I feel dumb. Thanks for the help.

On another note is there a way to do this globally so I don’t have to specify the exact location for each user? maybe something like “/server/$username”. Just so I don’t have to enter the user name in the path for each user.

Thanks again.

[Ross]

ahhh figured it out. If you select multiple entries and add the server path it will auto put in the shortname. Apple was thinking once again. Nice.

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