Finder Preferences for All Users?

Hello all,

I've done a fair amount of searching for this, and have tried a few different things. I support a University campus of Macs, and I'm just starting to get the machines joined to an Active Directory domain. Anyways, we've been instructing users on how to mount shared drives from a SMB connection.

The problem I'm having is that my public machines have a large user base, and I've created a login script that prompts users for credentials to their Network folder. All of this is working fine, except their "connected servers" are not showing up on the desktop.

In the Finder preferences, there is a setting in the general tab to show Connected servers on the desktop. I've tried checking this, and then copying the plist file that handles the preferences for the finder, but it's not changing this for any users that are logging in.

How can I have the "connected servers" option be checked for all users upon login? Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!

Jim