Where is home folder?

[schoolhelper]

Hi all,
Well I have gotten the MAC to authenicate to the AD server. I can login from a MAC and go to finder and see the server. Two things I’m not sure of

1- Is the server automatically mounted? When I go to finder and click on server it takes a few seconds to connect. The first time on each MAC I must enter the password again and check the box for remember this in key chain. Having a school of k thru 8th graders it would be nice that once they login they are not prompted w/ this question. Is there a way around this?

2- If I uncheck “force local home directory” (not in front of MAC, so may be off on text) when I login I think the MAC is trying to load a home folder on the Dock. However, I get a error message something like “can not find folder, does not exist or server is unavailable”.
Server is available, so I assume it’s a permissions thing, or the folder does not exist. I’m not a admin, so I’m figuring things out as I go. I have inherited the Win2003 server. Where is the user’s home folder defined? I thought it was under the profile tab in user properties on the 2003 server. However the server will not accept the \\server_name\home folder path format. It prompts me to use a drive letter etc. So if I enter the home directory as E:\students\jim, The MAC seems to map a folder called E:\ w/ a subfolder students & w/ a subfolder Jim off of the users local MAC home folder.

So I guess I’m wondering where the mac gets the information about the location of the users home folder on the server? Can I have the MAC map a local home folder and a server located home folder? And to be greedy, map a shared folder located on the server?

I hope this is clear…if not, please ask questions and I will do my best to clarify…
School about to open soon, so I really need to make this happen..

Any help is appreciated….Thanks

[sheridanp]

I know how you feel, its really a crash course ..

But its one of those things you have to go through … to become a better person, … i suggest searching for Ad-OD Sandbox guide here on AFP548 for a great guide on getting it all to work in a test environment and how the base tech all works. Once you have a understanding on how it all works have a look at the following posts, made recently by me, but I am still waiting for feed back from the experts here on the site if I have it all working aokay,

https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=24917
https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=24946

Again, I am no expert, and I have probably missed something fundamental and simple but my own network is slowly coming back online.

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