SMB Home as default save location.

[ozpass]

Hi guys!

Here’s my setup:

OS X 10.3.5 Server [Open Directory Master]
Win2003 Server [DNS, DHCP, Active Directory]
OS X 10.3.5 Clients

Active Directory hosts the user accounts, holds the home directories (located on the Windows server).

Clients are bound to AD, directory access configured to allow sign-on to AD and OpenDirectory (via LDAPv3 plugin).

OS X Server is bound to AD, Workgroup Manager used to manage client preferences with AD users added to OD groups.

The problem:

Although the users get their SMB home directory mapped (it appears on the desktop and in Finder), the applications default to a /Documents located in their locally-generated folder (i.e. inside /Users)

What I’d like is for OS X to create its folder structure inside the SMB home directory (i.e. /Documents, /Music, /Library etc.) so that applications could default to opening and saving from these locations.

Authentication works a treat, WGM managed settings are all applied fine, in short this is my one remaining stumbling block. Can I achieve what I require?

Many thanks in advance, guys….. AFP548 has helped me out more times than I can count in the past, hoping you can assist me here!

[ozpass]

That sounds like what I’m after. What am I missing?

[ozpass]

Hehe – oops, forgot to log in… needless to say, that last post was me.

[ozpass]

Thanks for your help!

I’ll give it a whirl tomorrow.

-Austin.

[ozpass]

I’ve just been able to test this at the site in question, and I’m happy to report that is works FLAWLESSLY.

It provides exactly the solution I was looking for.

Thanks for the assistance, and once again kudos to AFP548.com.

-Austin.

[Anonymous]

This tip works great for my situation too (mostly), thanks for all contributors. Is there a way to just have the documents folder redirected, but have the rest of the profile stored on the local Mac?

Worried about space and performance….

Thanks for any help!

[cashxx]

Hi,

I already know about this tip but what I am after is to have a login script run that will copy a template of a home directory to the user logging in and make a new home directory for that user if they don’t all ready have one. So basically you have a new student starting and here is what needs to take place.

1) Create new student in Active Directory with Home location
2) Setup a share with a template OS X home directory with default settings you want
3) Script to run when a user logs in that if they don’t already have a home directory to mount the share with the template and copy it to the new users Home drive to use as OS X’s Home Directory.
4) Now the new student has a Home Directory on a windows server and it acts like the OS X Home Directory with default prefs from the template so users don’t get register windows and default settings already set for applications.
5) Users having this roaming profile now they will be able to move from computer to computer and configure OS X the way they want.

Anyone have a script that will mount a share, check to see if the user logging in needs a copy of the user template and do so if needed and set permissions?

Thanks,

Dan

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