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Network home directory mounting

  • February 15, 2013
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Howdy all,

I have a 10.8.2 machine that is bound to Active Directory with mobile accounts. It is setup to use the UNC path from AD to derive the network home location. The problem is that when it mounts the users network home directory it mounts the parent folder instead of the users folder.

For instance if I look at SMBhome (dscl . read /Users/username SMBHome) it returns the correct home directory (domainhomeusername). However, it mounts smb://domain/home as the home directory when the user logs in.

If anyone has any insight to the problem I would really appreciate it.

Kevin.

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    • franton
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    • February 15, 2013

    Same on our implementation. Windows mounts the sharepoint but maps the entire folder path to My Documents. OS X instead mounts the sharepoint on the desktop and places the a link to the full path in the dock instead.

    The behaviour is technically correct, if annoying.

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    • UESCDurandal
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    • February 15, 2013

    Same here. Fortunately we use ExtremeZ-IP in our environment that provides AFP support and also has a built in feature that hides all user folders that do not match the user's account name. This way the whole Home volume mounts but the only folder present belongs to them.

    bentoms
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    • bentoms
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    • February 15, 2013

    This might explain it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4829

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    • coreythefore
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    • June 10, 2013

    We use a similar setup but users are allowed to see all user folders - they only have permission to view /Public/Drop Box - where students drop homework assignments for their teachers.

    Our issue is using the network path in AD won't create Mobile Accounts at login on our 10.8 Client computers.

    Oh, our Network Homes are on an OS X Server.

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