Mounting homedir to network share behavior

[jfmartel]

Hello, I’ve been searching for this for a couple days now and now asking to several communities to see if someone can help me.

I’ve been able so far to succesfully bind a MacOS X10.4 to AD. I don’t have OD yet.
My user successfully received the HOMEDIR specified in his user property but there is a weird thing with that.

I want my user to log on locally and have their HOMEDIR mounted as a network drive. I don’t want the user to work in the network directly. User has to copy manually their stuff to this HOMEDIR on the desktop.

So far I can see the HOMEDIR mounted in the Finder but the icon on the desktop show the root of the share for the HOMEDIR.

In the user property, HOMEDIR is specified as “\\server.domain.loc\SHARE$\USERNAME”. The icon in the finder map correctly to the user folder, but the one on the desktop map at “\\server.domain.loc\SHARE$”. So when I click on it, I can see all user folder (but can’t enter them)

Is there any way to force the icon to:

– Diseappear from the desktop OR
– Map correctly to the same folder located in the Finder?

Thanks

[arekdreyer]

When binding to Active Directory, the default is to “Force local home directory on startup disk”. I don’t quite understand what you want, but it sounds like you want to uncheck that option. Open Directory Access, (click the lock if necessary and authenticate as an admin) double click Active Directory, click Show Advanced Options.

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