Specifications

Setting Up Home Folders for Active Directory User Accounts
On a computer that’s congured to use the Directory Utility Active Directory
connector you can enable or disable network home folders or local home folders for
Active Directory user accounts.
With network home folders, a user’s Windows network home folder is mounted as the
Mac OS X home folder when the user logs in.
You determine whether the network home folder location is obtained from the Active
Directory standard homeDirectory attribute or from the Mac OS X homeDirectory
attribute, if the Active Directory schema has been extended to include it.
With local home folders, each Active Directory user who logs in has a home folder on
the Mac OS X startup disk. In addition, the user’s network home folder is mounted as
a network volume, like a share point. The user can copy les between this network
volume and the local home folder.
To set up home folders for Active Directory user accounts:
1 Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
3 Click Login Options, then click Join or Edit.
4 Click Open Directory Utility.
5 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
6 Click Services.
7 In the list of services, select Active Directory and click the Edit (/) button.
8 If the advanced options are hidden, click Show Advanced Options.
9 Click User Experience.
10 If you want Active Directory user accounts to have local home folders in the
computer’s /Users folder, click “Force local home folder on startup disk.”
This option is not available if “Create mobile account at login” is selected.
11 To use the Active Directory standard attribute for the home folder location, select “Use
UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location” and then choose
from the following protocols for accessing the home folder:
To use the standard Windows protocol SMB, choose smb from the “Network Â
protocol to be used” pop-up menu.
To use the standard Macintosh protocol AFP, choose afp from the “Network protocol Â
to be used” pop-up menu.
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