Change Documents location without moving entire home location
OK, heres the situation. I am setting up Macs at a school that uses Active Directory. We have a XServe. They want the OSX Documents location to be the AD network home location.
Easy enough and i can set this up no problems, but we don't want the entire OSX home folder to move, just the documents.
The pupils use the same username on both windows and OSX so we want exactly the same documents folder on both OS's. Sounds like it should be simple right!
Current setup:-
AD/OD macs signing in using AD usernames and policies applied from xserve.
Currently i have the AD documents mounted on the doc, the only problem with this is there is no easy way to save directly to this as the AD documents folder is several folders down the list on the windows server.
All Mac's and the Xserve are running latest versions of OSx..
Windows is handling the DHCP and DNS. Xserve has AFP SMB and OD setup on it.
Any help greatly received as i am mainly a windows guy, on a steep learning curve on Macs.
How are the shares named? Are they all on the same directory? Such as "smb://student/server/student_name ?
What about the AD? Are the login names the same as the name of the student's share?
If so, you can try writing a login script that grabs the name of the user that just logged in, using the $1 variable, and have it create a symbolic link. I'm not to familiar with login scripts, but something along the lines of this should do:
*sudo mount smb://student/server/$1*
*ln -s /Users/$1/Documents /Volumes/$1/Documents/*
Once again, I would have someone check that, since I am not to familiar with login scripts.
Also, take a look at this, it may be helpful. http://www.thursby.com/products/admitmac.html
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