Mobile Account Records & SMB file sharing – bug?

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

I posted this over on the Apple Discussion boards, but I thought I’d check here too.

I’ve recently set up a couple of powerbooks in our office to have the new “mobile accounts” feature introduced in Panther Server. It works flawlessly, with one exception… the mobile account users are not able to share their home directories out over SMB (Windows File Sharing). Authentication will fail if they try to mount their home directories from the powerbook to a Windows machine. If I set their accounts to be non-mobile (remote) and delete the “shadow” account out of their PB’s local netinfo database then authentication works fine. Anyone else seen this? Am I doing something wrong?

[MSATech]

Hello,

I am experiencing problems with users and SMB as well.

Here is my problem. I have computers set up on Panther, used the AD plugin to join my AD domain, users are created in AD with a windows (server 2003) home, the home automounts if it is an smb mount, and works fine.

The problem is, the user can not see any other smb shares on the same server. They can see other smb shares on another server, but not on the one that is being used to store their “home windows Profile’ and then mount it to the OSX dock and desktop.

This all seemed to be working fine prior to last Thursday’s security update.

I can connect to the same “home” server via afp, re-authenticate again, and then see afp shares just fine.

I really do not want my users to have to authenticate twice to see shares.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Anthony

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