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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    At work next day, everything worked fine.
    I believe this is a problem with 10.5.5 computers that are bound to AD, when AD is not available (but internet is.) Some type of weird priority locking or timeout setting? It seems to fail immediately if no network is available, but if the internet is available it is like it gets "hung" waiting for a response.
    Anybody else having similar problems?
    Below are the details on the specific tests that brought me to this conclusion.
    1) Boot with work network cable connected - Works fine
    2) Boot with work wifi network enabled - works fine
    3) Boot with public wifi network enabled and work cable - works fine.
    4) Boot with only public wifi - appears "frozen" (turned off after 5 minutes of trying to login)
    5) Boot without network or wifi - works fine using cached mobile account info
    6) Boot with network cable and public wifi, remove network cable after login- works fine for a period becomes periodically frozen. attempts to do anything become queued, when computer starts responding queue emptys out (can see menus / applications switch around to correspond with clicks.)
    7) Change account to Manual sync of mobile account, again boot with network cable and public wifi, remove network cable- no freezing responds normaly.
    All steps repeated after rebinding computer to AD - same results.

    First rule of installing an upgrade, run permissions repair both before & after. Did you do that?
    I'm using a Mac dual bound to AD & OD, works perfectly. I can't speak for the exact setup of your network but I personally would be suspicious of AD. I had a similar issue some time back where my processor would go crazy with the net directory authentication running like crazy. Turned out AD had somehow forgotten my computer. It only happened away from work where my Mac couldn't contact the AD server (not exactly sure why). I'd try the following.
    1. While at work create a local administrative account on your Mac (you should always have a backup account anyway).
    2. Login as local admin account.
    3. open Directory Utility from the Applications/Utilities folder & remove the AD server (you'll need an account that can bind machines to AD).
    4. re-add your Mac to AD.
    This may resolve your issue & shouldn't hurt anything in the least.

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