[atrusler]

I can confirm this definitely does work on 10.4. I set this up on 12 servers at Long Beach Unified School District, some clients running 10.3 and some running 10.4. The students all have their home directories auto mount with a desktop and documents folder.

[atrusler]

Apple requires guest access enabled for automounts. You don’t need to grant guest access to the student’s home directories. You just have to have a guest account and load your afptcp.nlm with the guest option.

[atrusler]

Thank you, that artical was helpful.
It turned out to be a mapping problem. The application that performed the mapping I got from a document titled IntegratingMac OS X And Novell eDirectory didn’t map the HomeDirectory attrib.
Once I added the mapping:
user -> HomeDirectory to apple-user-homeurl
and populated it with
<home_dir><url>afp://server/mountpoint</url><path>path to users home</path></home_dir>
all of the permissions where correct.

[atrusler]

Ok, Kanaka is great if you have an extra $10k laying around. I tested it and want to buy it. It works great. I, however, work for a school district.

I am in the same boat. I have 10.3.8 – 10.4.2 clients.
I’ve created a mount record in eDir
I have it automounting with apple’s afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@server/mountpoint meathod.
I’ve created a guest account
I load afptcp.nlm with guest and cleartext options.
When I look at the mount under /Network/Servers/ I get a permissions error.
Guest has read permissions
The user has permissions

I can mount the volume manually with guest and the test users credentials.
I can mount the volume manually with afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@server/mountpoint meathod.
Just the automount does not work correctly.

If I change the automount to afp://user:password@server/mount it works great.
I have a feeling it’s guest account issues, but have been beating my head againts a wall for a few days now. Any clues?

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