Mac OS X Homedirectories Mac (X/9) & XP H: Drive mapping

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Could someone tell me how to configure Mac OS X 10.3.3 server to:

1) Allow single login for home directories from client to server

2) Map the H: Drive (home directory) on Microsoft PCs

3) Make the user profile store all data on the Server (Profile)

Is there a step by step to setup an LDAP server? Complete setup line by line.

Any one do this and get it working? Home directories is my focus!

Thank you!

[warriorx99]

[quote:e328edff1b]1) Allow single login for home directories from client to server [/quote:e328edff1b]

This I’ve done recently. You setup the Mac OS X server as the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). When you use Server Admin, look in the Windows section. The options are in there. You also want to be sure that when you setup Mac OS X server that you had a properly setup DNS entry for the server’s name with forward and reverse lookup. Kerberos is the key to having the single sign-on between the macs and the windows machines and only works properly if the forward and reverse lookup entries are correct. In Server Admin, check the Open Directory section and ensure that Password Server and KDC are running. I know I’m being brief, but the details are all located in the Windows Services manual:

http://a96.g.akamai.net/7/96/51/b3c0d94ac2815c/www.apple.com/server/pdfs/Windows_Services.pdf

[quote:e328edff1b]2) Map the H: Drive (home directory) on Microsoft PCs [/quote:e328edff1b]
This is done automatically when you set the machine up as a PDC (and you also set it up to do network home directories for Mac users). The default is H: and if you don’t change the user’s home settings in Workgroup manager, it’ll be the same as their Mac OS home directory by default. There’s a trick to getting the H:\Documents folder to map to the My Documents folder on the PC. Detailed instructions are located at the following location:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.6891391b

[quote:e328edff1b]3) Make the user profile store all data on the Server (Profile) [/quote:e328edff1b]
Roaming profiles using the Mac OS X server as the PDC will do this.

I know that’s pretty quick, but the Windows Services manual explains a whole lot about it. Also worth looking at is the Open Directory manual where it explains network home directories (or maybe it’s in the File Sharing manual….). It took me about a month to get this all figured out the first time. Now it only takes me a few hours to do. I hope that helps you eliminate some of the time I had to invest when I was first figuring this stuff out.

-Shane

[stmoddell]

Howdy,

So it appears I’m having issue with the DNS entry for the PDC. I’ve set the server up to be a PDC after I configured my DNS. DNS appears to be fine for the internal domain.

My issue is that my XP clients can’t be added to the PDC because they can’t find it. I’m not running WINS, so there is apparently some DNS entry I need to make, but I can’t sort it.

I’ve got osx server 10.3.4. Running OD master, and set to be PDC.
Primary domain for DNS is internal.foo.com
machine name is leo
Windows domain is TOPS

The error on the Windows side is that the client can’t find _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.TOPS. But I’ve set up DNS zone for TOPS and it still errors out. Any clues? Any hints? Anything I should read?

All was well until I tried adding windows clients, but that is somewhat the job of this box…

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