Modifying the AD plugin

[sketch]

Problem: We’ve got MS Dfs on our file servers, which reults in home directoriy paths looking like this:

AD/homedir$/staff/brubble

which, of course, the Macs hate. I would like to build some type of variable mapping into the image so that when a mac sees:

AD/homedir$/staff/brubble

it converts it to:

staffserveralias/staff$/brubble

or AD/homedir$/students/bambam

becomes studentserveralias/students$/bambam

any thoughts/ideas on where I can start?

[Anonymous]

You might look at ADmitMac since it supports DFS and you can actually get ahold of them for feature requests and such.

[sketch]

MacTroll wrote:

There’s no real way to configure the AD plugin this way. You can play with it’s plist in /Library/Preferences/DirectoryServices, but that won’t really do the variable substitution that you are looking for.

If you really want to be able to do this, you can use the LDAP plugin instead. You’d have to do the Kerberos configs by hand and some other things, but this is one of the reasons why people still use the LDAP plugin for this kind of thing.

ok, but isn’t the AD plugin just an overlay for LDAP? How can I access 10.3’s LDAP to create variable mappings, so that when a system is connected using the AD plugin, the information that goes through it is then modified appropriately?

And ADMitMac may be a nice product, but it’s expensive. I’m suprised there have been no open source efforts yet to create a MS Dfs solution for Macs.

[thursbysoftware]

sketch wrote:

And ADMitMac may be a nice product, but it’s expensive.

Expensive compared to what? How mch time have you spent trying to get AD plugin to work the way you want it? And chimchim’s right — we listen to customers’ requests about features and implement them if possible.

[jaharmi]

For many of us, ADMitMac costs more than the operating system. Well, it did last time I asked for a quote. It’s also an additional expense that a Mac “needs” in order to play in the Active Directory sandbox … when Windows computers don’t need anything else.

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