OID and Active Directory(global catalog) synchronization issues

We have a large network with 7 domains within the AD forest.....The OID server profile
points to a single domain controller/gc in 1 of these 7 domains. It is able to synchronize when a change occured
from this domain but not the others in the forest by quering port 3268/GC. We reloaded
the bootstrap which reduced the "highest committed usn" last read attribute value in
OID....and the synch started working again with another domain but not consistently(a change in AD gets pulled into OID)...
It seems as if OID cannot read the highest committed usn value for all domains
within one forest by quering a single global catalog domain controller in one
domain....any ideas on best practice to have a consistent synch from OID to all
domains in AD?
Message was edited by:
marcvip

Each AD server in the Forest will maintain his own highestCommittedHSN. The AD GC should maintain a consistent HSN but knows and keeps all the AD servers in sync. So if the GC does not maintain a consistent HSN you should contact Microsoft as well (besides this forum :-)
regards,
--Olaf

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OID and Active Directory

1 Does Oracle OID integrate with Active Directory to synch data with Active Directory periodically?
2 Marshall data from Active Directory on demand (live link)?
3 Does Oracle Single Sign-on solution work with multiple directories (i.e. OID and AD both being used by Oracle Single Sign-on)
4 Can Oracle Single-Sing-on work with a Desktop login into a Domain (also called NT Authentication or Desktop authentication).

This is what I have to share with you....For further details refer link http://otn.oracle.com/products/oid/index.html and Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide.
1 Does Oracle OID integrate with Active Directory to synch data with Active Directory periodically?
For synchronizing from Microsoft Active Directory to Oracle Internet Directory, you need to track changes in Microsoft Active Directory and configure your Active directory connector giving its URL, user account and password to be used by the Active Directory connector, its DIT info on domain which contain the users/groups. And in the Active Directory synchronization profile you'll have to set the mapping rule.
2 Marshall data from Active Directory on demand (live link)?
Yes, its possible to migrate data between directories. Configure your Active Directory connector and External auth Plug-in. And use the Directory Integration and Provisioning Assistant.
3 Does Oracle Single Sign-on solution work with multiple directories (i.e. OID and AD both being used by Oracle Single Sign-on)
Yes, its possible. When a user tries to log in, the OracleAS Single Sign-On server tries to verify the credentials the user enters against those stored in Oracle Internet Directory. If the user credentials are not there, then the Oracle directory server invokes the Active Directory external authentication plug-in. This plug-in verifies the user credentials in Microsoft Windows. If the verification is successful, then the Oracle directory server notifies the OracleAS Single Sign-On accordingly.
4 Can Oracle Single-Sing-on work with a Desktop login into a Domain (also called NT Authentication or Desktop authentication).
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Which domain and forest functional level is supportted for the "Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronization"?

Hi all,
I'd like to confirm which Domain/Forest functional levels of Active Directory is supported for "Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronization" in Project Server 2013.
I guess that 2003 or later is supported, but my customer required reliable sources.
I googled and searched article at TechNet, but I couldn't find.
Could anyone inform me the article about that?
Thank you in advance.
Kaori.

Hi Michael and all,
Anyway I solved this issue.
I couldn't find article that I desired, so I asked advice to my colleagues and they told that the functional level 2003 or later are supported in their experience.
In addition, I found these articles about SharePoint sync limitations.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932378/en-us
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970612

MS Active Directory LDAP Authentication/Locking Issue.

Dear All,
We are a software company; we have implemented feature of LDAP Authentication in our product using Java API and its working fine from our network environment.
We have used following things with LDAP feature.
1. User Authentication.
2. Locking account after exceed the maximum attempts that has configured in window server.
Main our issue is: The LDAP feature is not working properly from our client side. They are able to authenticate their LDAP user but do not able to lock user account however they have exceeded the maximum attempts from login dialog of our products but it still working in our side.
If anybody has any experienced about it then please reply with positvie solution or any other information like require do the specific configuration for different version of Windows and Active Directory Server etc.
Can any body know what are the possibilities for identifying and resolving this issue?
Please help us if anybody has any experienced about it.
Please do the needful.
Thanks,
Mehul.

Hi,
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Following code for checking whether ADS User is valid or not.
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Edited by: [email protected] on Mar 6, 2008 10:24 PM
Edited by: [email protected] on Mar 6, 2008 10:25 PM
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http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=41537425
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http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity_mgr/specs.jsp
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Looking for successful auth debug between cisco 1113 acs 4.2 and Active Directory

Hello,
Does anyone have a successful authentication debug using cisco 1113 acs 4.2 and Active Directory? I'm not having success in setting this up and would like to see what a successful authentication debug looks. Below is my current situation:
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Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: svc:LOGIN user_len:0 port_len:6 (0x6) raddr_len:12 (0xC) data_len:0
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: user:
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: port: tty515
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: rem_addr: 10.10.10.10
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: data:
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: End Packet
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Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
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Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 12 header bytes (expect 16bytes data)
Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 28 bytes response
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 2, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: session_id 763084134 (0x2D7BBD66), dlen 16 (0x10)
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: AUTHEN/REPLY status:4 flags:0x0 msg_len:10, data_len:0
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: msg: Username:
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: data:
Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: End Packet
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Oct 6 13:52:23: TPLUS: Received authen response status GET_USER (7)
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Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS: processing authentication continue request id 444
Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS: Authentication continue packet generated for 444
Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/WRITE/46130160: Started 5 sec timeout
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 3, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: session_id 763084134 (0x2D7BBD66), dlen 15 (0xF)
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: AUTHEN/CONT msg_len:10 (0xA), data_len:0 (0x0) flags:0x0
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: User msg: <elided>
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: User data:
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: End Packet
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Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 12 header bytes (expect 16bytes data)
Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:30: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 28 bytes response
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 4, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: session_id 763084134 (0x2D7BBD66), dlen 16 (0x10)
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: AUTHEN/REPLY status:5 flags:0x1 msg_len:10, data_len:0
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: msg: Password:
Oct 6 13:52:30: T+: data:
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Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/WRITE/46130160: Started 5 sec timeout
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 5, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: session_id 763084134 (0x2D7BBD66), dlen 16 (0x10)
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: AUTHEN/CONT msg_len:11 (0xB), data_len:0 (0x0) flags:0x0
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: User msg: <elided>
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: User data:
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: End Packet
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/WRITE: wrote entire 28 bytes request
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 12 header bytes (expect 33bytes data)
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 45 bytes response
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 6, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: session_id 763084134 (0x2D7BBD66), dlen 33 (0x21)
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: AUTHEN/REPLY status:7 flags:0x0 msg_len:27, data_len:0
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: msg: Error during authentication
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: data:
Oct 6 13:52:37: T+: End Packet
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/46130160: Processing the reply packet
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS: Received Authen status error
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/REQ_WAIT/46130160: timed out
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/REQ_WAIT/46130160: No sock_ctx found while handling request timeout
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS: Choosing next server 101.34.5.143
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/1/NB_WAIT/46130160: Started 5 sec timeout
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/46130160: releasing old socket 0
Oct 6 13:52:37: TPLUS(000001BC)/1/46130160: Processing the reply packet
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Oct 6 13:52:49: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/NB_WAIT/46130160: Started 5 sec timeout
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Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: type:AUTHEN/START, priv_lvl:15 action:LOGIN ascii
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: svc:LOGIN user_len:0 port_len:6 (0x6) raddr_len:12 (0xC) data_len:0
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Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: port: tty515
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: rem_addr: 10.10.10.10
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Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: End Packet
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Oct 6 13:52:49: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 12 header bytes (expect 43bytes data)
Oct 6 13:52:49: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: socket event 1
Oct 6 13:52:49: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/READ: read entire 55 bytes response
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: Version 192 (0xC0), type 1, seq 2, encryption 1
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: session_id 1523308383 (0x5ACBD75F), dlen 43 (0x2B)
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: AUTHEN/REPLY status:4 flags:0x0 msg_len:37, data_len:0
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: msg: 0x0A User Access Verification 0x0A 0x0A Username:
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: data:
Oct 6 13:52:49: T+: End Packet
Oct 6 13:52:49: TPLUS(000001BC)/0/46130160: Processing the reply packet
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The 1113 acs failed reports shows:
External DB is not operational
thanks,
james

Hi James,
We get External DB is not operational. Could you confirm if under External Databases > Unknown User Policy, and verify you have the AD/ Windows database at the top?
this error means the external server might not correctly configured on ACS external database section.
Another point is to make sure we have remote agent installed on supported windows server.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_solution_engine/4.2/installation/guide/remote_agent/rawi.html#wp289013
Also provide the Auth logs from the server running remote agent, e.g.:-
AUTH 10/25/2007 15:21:31 I 0376 1276 External DB [NTAuthenDLL.dll]:
Attempting Windows authentication for user v-michal
AUTH 10/25/2007 15:21:31 E 0376 1276 External DB [NTAuthenDLL.dll]: Windows
authentication FAILED (error 1783L)
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Vinay

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What version?
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Cucm 9.1.2 and Active Directory(Windows Server 2003 Standart Edition SP2)

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Yes, it is possible.
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Step by step process to create domain name and active directory in windows 7 64 bit

Step by step process to create domain and active directory in windows 7 64 bit
I work in an organization
I want to create a domain name SBBYDP and make it server for other computers
I want that, all users’ have a personal account while they use any computer from this organization, even they use any computer from this network they use their own account to login to network.
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Hi,
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Active Directory
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742424.aspx
AD DS Deployment Guide
http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/cc753963(v=ws.10).aspx
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Hi, I have the same question.
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DNS, Certificates, and Active Directory - School Setup Issues

Our school has been piloting a small iPad depolyment. I have been struggling with getting Profile Manager to work correctly since August of last year. Here's the setup:
1. Active Directory DNS/DHCP server (set as "school.local"--yes, I know .local is bad form, but it was set before I got here). I have changed the "Digest" to "Basic" setting
2. Mac Mini server that has its own external IP and hostname ("mac.school.org") and is also bound to the AD server for user authentication for services (Profile Manager, WebDAV, wiki, etc.). I have a self-signed SSL certificate installed under the name "mac.school.org"
3. About 90 iPads, and a handfull of Mac desktops
In a perfect world, users would be able to login (with their AD credentials) to the Profile Manager self-service portal using the external hostname of the mac server ("mac.school.org/mydevices"), install the Trust Profile, and enroll the device (iPad, Mac, etc).
However, this is not the case. The setup seems to work for awhile; quite perfectly in fact. But then for reasons unknown to me, everything just "breaks" and Profile Manager ceases to work like it should. Here are some of issues I am seeing:
a.) DNS service on the Mac server turns itself ON randomly. DNS should NOT be running this server, correct? All DNS lookups internally are done by the AD server. I've used changeip and everything matches (both say "mac.school.org")
b.) Whenever we use VPN, and at other seemingly random times, the server's hostname changes from "mac.school.org" to "mac.school.local" I would make the server external only, but it needs to have an internal IP to talk to the AD server.
c.) AD binding breaks randomly and I have to rebind the server to AD
d.) When enrolling devices, Profile Manager starts rejecting certificates (not a trusted source, etc.) and I have to destroy OD and PM and start all over again.
I know this is a lot and I'm not necessarily expecting anyone to answer all of these questions. I guess I'm wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I've looked for help with these issues all over the place, but none of the environments I read about are quite like the one I'm in.

Yes, I am not giving the real domain name here.
No prob. just checking, sometimes people have weird domain names never know if they are real or they expect them to be real or they put domain names owned by someone else on their internal network eek.
Not really needed to use mac.school.org internally, that is in local LAN. The thing to understand about DNS is the scope for which a DNS zone is relevant WRT a client machine — inside LAN or on Internet, and which DNS server is authoritative for a domain. Authoritative in the sense of 'the final word'.
Go to Network Utility on your mac, type in your real domain name (whatever you are changing to school.org to hide it) what comes back. On my server I see the below (I have replaced my real, Internet legal domain, to 'example.com')
In my setup I have, on the LAN, setup the Mac server to be authoritative for domain 'example.com'. On the Internet however it is another external DNS server.
So you have set DNS forwarders on the Mac machine?
I really don't believe that the machine's hostname is changing, it is statically configured. What I believe is happening is that DNS name resolution is telling you different things at different times because you are using different DNS servers.
On mac machine terminal type $less /etc/resolv.conf and copy paste what it says. In server app Services | DNS right side does it say you have forwarders?
Still it is not good to have two DNS domains in your internal LAN, there is no need to have school.org on the mac DNS unless it is going to be fully setup to be authoritative in the internal LAN for the domain school.org. You can have school.org on the Internet (Internet scope of users point 1) and school.local on internal machine (LAN scope of users).
Lookup has started…
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;example.com.                   IN        ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com.     10800          IN        SOA          example.com. admin.example.com. 2013010907 3600 900 1209600 86400
example.com.     10800          IN         NS          server.example.com.
example.com.     10800          IN         MX          10 server.example.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
server.example.com. 10800       IN          A          192.168.1.20
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Active Directory Ghost Object replication issue

I have a Windows 2003, Single Forest with nearly 50 Domains. This is a constantly changing, deployable system where not all Domains are connected and online at all times.
Some months ago 2 of these domains were held up in transit and tombstoned. Before they were connected to the Forest again they went to our Hardware support department to be "cleaned" meaning remove dust etc, instead they wiped the arrays on all
servers.
Our Level 4 Support team reanimated these node after restoring them from a really old backup.
This backup did not refelect the AD as it was when it was deleted, therefore we have several orphaned objects form those domains. The Domains are functioning correctly and replicating, however, the GC in the forest is inconsistent and the orphaned/ghost
objects are still being replicated.
We have rehosted the directory partitions from the problem nodes to online domains which works fine, but as soon as another domain comes online the orphaned objects are again replicated into the Global Catalog. The nature of our system means that we cannot
control when the other domains are coming back online to rehost them before replicating the object items back into the GC.
I have made several LDAP queries and can see that the items no longer exist on the problem domain, the only reference to the objects is in the GC directory partitions of those domains.
The biggest issue I have is that these objects were mail enabled users and when the GAL queries the GC it is repopulating them.
I've hit a bit of a wall now and do not know how we can remove these ghost objects without having all domains online at the same time and rehosting the problem domains partitions forest wide. I'd appreciate any assistnce.
I have asked this question before but with less detail so I'm having another go!

An AD backup is as good as the Tombstone lifetime. By default the TSL of a 2003 forest functional level is 60. So if you haven't done this already you should probably configure a higher value for the TSL. By default Strict Replication
Consistency is also enabled to prevent DC that have been disconnected for a long time to propagate lingering objects into the AD topology, check to see if you have this enabled. You should use "repadmin" to remove the lingering objects.
"When a domain controller in your Active Directory environment is disconnected from the replication topology for an extended period of time, all objects that are deleted from AD DS on all other domain controllers might remain on the disconnected
domain controller. Such objects are called lingering objects. When this domain controller is reconnected to the replication topology, it acts as a source replication partner that has one or more objects that its destination replication partners no longer have.
Problems occur when these lingering objects on the source domain controller are updated and these updates are sent by replication to the destination domain controllers. A destination domain controller can respond in one of two ways:
If the destination domain controller has strict replication consistency enabled, it recognizes that it cannot update the object (because the object does not exist), and it locally halts inbound replication of the directory partition from that source
domain controller.
If the destination domain controller does not have strict replication consistency enabled, it requests the full replica of the updated object, which introduces a lingering object into the directory."
Also keep in mind that the Infrastructure Master role handles the cross-domain references and phantoms from the global catalog in its domain. Make sure that you either have all DCs as Global Catalogs or do not place the GC on the DC with the IM role.
Here are some useful links:
Determine the tombstone lifetime for the forest
Event ID 1388 or 1988: A lingering object is detected
Use Repadmin to remove lingering objects
Enable strict replication consistency
FSMO placement and optimization on Active Directory domain controllers
Phantoms, tombstones and the infrastructure master
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Configuration Help - Sun Java Directory 5.2 and Active Directory Sync

Don't know what I am skipping... but I get stuck with no Domain Controllers showing up in the pick list, when configuring an Active Directory Resource.
I am using DS 5.2.P4 on Windows 2003 Sp1 server, along with Indentity synchronization for windows (ISW) 1 2004Q3 SP1.
I have the installtion manaul and can not get past step 6 of creating an Active Directory Source, becuase no Domain Conroller show up in the pick list, nor can I specify one. I have verified that one of the Domain Controllers is configured as Single Master Operations Role in the AD.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

nebiyou1 wrote:
1. Is Messaging Server 5.2 compatible with Sun Java Directory Server 6.3?This is obviously not a tested (or supported) combination. That being said I'm not aware of any particular issues with MS5.2 and DS6.3.
If Yes, any documents on how to migrate Messaging Server from pointing to Directory Server 5.2 to 6.3?No.
2. Can Messaging Server 5.2 p 2 run on Solaris 10?Yes. However you need to upgrade to 5.2hf2.18 (last hotfix released) to address known Solaris 10 issues e.g.
5108758 Dispatcher incorrectly determines Solaris 10 version
You can get a copy of iMS5.2hf2.18 from Sun support.
Regards,
Shane.

10.4.6 and Active Directory Problem - Volume cannot be found??

I have bound six 10.4.6 to active directory. All went sweet with no problems. I have "force local home folder" off in Directory Access for AD. I can login to the Mac no problem using any user account from AD. If I login with a user the first time all goes well. The desktop icons show and the home directory is that of the users network home folder and can browse it. All good until I log out and login again. I get the desktop icons but the users home directory give the error "The Volume for %username% Cannot be found" when trying to access. I can browse the network to the user home folder without having to authenticate. The server (2003) shows no login errors, all looks fine. I have upgraded one Mac to 10.4.7 but made no differnce.
I have installed "services for Mac and Appletalk" on the server but from what I have been told this shouldn't need to be installed but I did as I was getting no where anyway.
Any ideas?
PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Chris!
Before I comment, I want to define a couple of things. A "Mac home folder" stores a user's files (Documents, Library, etc.). This home folder can be stored locally on the workstation or it can be stored on a server. A "Windows home folder" is defined in a user's Active Directory account and can be used as the Mac home folder or simply as a network user folder for storage.
While the idea of a network-based Mac home folder is nice, it can be clunky simply because the entire user experience is dependent on network speed and/or good file synchronization between your server and workstation. As someone who works in a group supporting about 300 Macs, I suggest enabling local home folders and not using a network-based Mac home folder.
Next, File Services for Macintosh (AFP protocol) built into Windows Server will not support network-based Mac home folders. This is a dead end. You can install a third party product from Group Logic called ExtremeZ-IP, which does support network-based home folders over AFP.
Therefore, what's happening in your network is that the network-based Mac home folders are being mounted via the SMB protocol, which uses Windows style file sharing. SMB in Mac OS X is good for limited use but I wouldn't recommend it for extensive use, which would include network-based Mac home folders.
Here's what I suggest for your AD settings: 1.) Enable local home folders. 2.) Connect via SMB. This will keep your users' Mac home folders local to the machine but if their Windows network home folder is properly defined in their AD account settings then these should automatically mount on the Desktop via SMB at login.
If you can get your Windows home folders to mount automtically on the users' Desktops then you can experiment with synchronization. After logging in, each user can visit Apple menu --> System Preferences... --> Accounts and the synchronization options will be available. A user can synchronize all or part of his local Mac home folder to his mounted Windows home folder.
Hope this helps! bill
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