STOP network home folder auto-mount

I'm looking at correcting this also. I've already got a method to make dock icons for our network home and other shares, and they'll mount up as soon as they're clicked. I don't like having any non-working ?'s in the dock. And like you I can't get Lion to stop fail-mounting the network home. It mounts.... it just doesn't go far enough into the full path, and the folder it does mount, most users don't have access to the subfolders to get to what they need.

So likely culrpits are maybe /etc/fstab or an rc script I think.... On the other hand this may be confined to AD logins. I just find it odd that disabling "Derive network home path from AD UNC path" doesn't do it.

Tried changing the /etc/autofs_master and autofs_home, but no luck. Its not in /etc/fstab.hd either- and looking at that file shows its deprecated and not being used. It sticks the smb mount into my network users' loginitems, but its greyed out and can't be removed... and looking for /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist reveals that it doesn't exist and this loginitem is coming from somewhere else.

I was able to disable it using:

dsconfigad -localhome enable

However, that broke most of my localhost MCX settings. After installing workgroup manager to take a look at why my disabled preferences panes were enabled, I was unable to pull up the localhost computer and WGM gave me a message that the OD plugin wasn't initialized. Some settings did seem to take, like desktop background and dock configuration, but others weren't being applied.

So the choice with this method is between having a broken dock icon and mis-mounted network home vs losing an unknown number of managed preferences.

I've read that changing the user's network home in AD to have the correct case-sensitivity may help it mount the full path and then the icon would, ya know, work the way its supposed to. I've also read that deleting the network home info from AD will get rid of it. Ultimately, neither of those is an option for me since managing 20k+ users in AD is not part of my job description. I shouldn't have to adapt my environment to fit the macs, they should be configurable enough to fit into it the way I need them to. I just want auto-mounting the network home to be turned off. Is that so hard?

Hi Madmin,

Thank you for the information you posted about how to stop the automount, would you mind posting your script to mount AD home folder. I am new to Macs and enjoying the deep end getting them working with AD and DFS homes 🙂

Thanks

Edd

Hi Madmin,

I am currently testing and only have the Macs bound to AD; however, once I have this working I am then going to setup the golden triangle. I am one 10.7.2.

Many Thanks,

Edd

Hi Madmin,

Have you managed to have a look at your script? We are keen to get the students using the Macs but this is causing us problems rolling them out. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Edd

Thanks for following up with that answer, Madmin! 🙂

I found a much easier way to do it:

sudo dsconfigad -useuncpath disable

Here's where I found it:

https://macmule.com/2011/07/27/how-to-stop-directory-utility-mounting-home-folde r-at-login/