AD users using HomeSync on an OS X share
We have a central “windows 2003 AD” which I DO NOT administer. I have bound our “Intel Xserve 10.4.9” to it and promoted the “Intel Xserve” to OD master. I also have an “Xserve RAID” attached to the “Intel Xserve” which I would like to use for the users home directories.
Single Sign On “SSO” is working as I have shares on the “Xserve RAID” which both MAC and Windows users can access without being prompted for a username or password.
The default user home directory is setup in the users “AD” profile, which I can not change as I do have permissions to do so.
I do however have full rights to a “container” within “AD” where I can create other “Containers”, “Group Policies”, “computers” and “Groups” but all “Group Policies” will only apply to computers within my container as I do not have rights to move users from their default container.
This is my question:
How can I make the shares on the “RAID” available for the mac users as a home directory, which in the case of a laptop will allow me to setup “HomeSync” for users, and in the case of desktop systems just have their own home share mount on the desktop at startup as their “USERNAME”.
You may ask why not use the default “AD” home directory via SMB, well this area is limited to around 200MB which I again have no control over and it can’t be increased so any idea of using the central “Windows 2003 AD” shares as “HomeSync” shares is out of the question.
Thanks for any help,
Regan B.
Intel Xserve Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Mac OS X (10.4.9)