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We have 10.9 desktop clients bound to Windows AD servers and Users' home directories are hosted on a Windows based file share via SMB.



They are currently mounted at /home/[username]. Is that recommended, or would they be better mounted at /Users/[username]? Are there any advantages of one over the other?

Further to my original question, the material here explains things a bit better:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/115399/where-is-the-nfshomedirectory-attribute-stored



It looks as though our clients are populating the NFSHomeDirectory attribute as this is not present on our AD servers.



For those of you that make use of network homes, how do you manage this in your shops?

@ianmb We have home folders created on your DFS which is SMB. They can be accessed from both Windows or Mac.




  1. Create directories on your server (//sjdfs01/bturner$) is mine. The actual path is //sjdfs01/DFSShare/Users/... or something like that. I didn't set it up.

  2. For the users' account properties in AD, under the profile tab, use the full FQDN (sjdfs01.ehi.ehealth.com/bturner$)

  3. Check boxes for Create Local Home and Force UNC Path in the AD Binding policy for your Macs in JSS.



When your user logs in, their path should be mapped. That's the gist of it.

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