CS4 Bridge crash - OSX 10.6.2

Question

Crash occurs each time i try to :
- display the contents of a folder that contains PDF files
- display of a folder that contains Illustrator files.

Answer 1

A long winded post deserves a long winded reply! Are you serving the home directories from Novell's AFP file server? If not -- if you're serving them from a Mac server -- then nevermind all this.
If so, you may need to create a generic mount object in your eDirectory tree (not an AppleShare object -- I've never been able to get that working)
Get Properties of the mount object and, under the "Other" tab (I'm assuming you're using ConslowOne) add the following attributes: values (or whatever variations of them are appropriate for you)
apple-mountDirectory: /Network/Servers
apple-mountOption: net
apple-mountOption: url==afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%[email protected]/staff-network-drive
(yes, apple-mountOption gets two values! i just wrote the attribute twice for clarity)
apple-mountType: url
Once I had this in place I still had to do some fiddling with how to specify the home directory for each user. I settled on
OSX Home: /Network/Servers/10.9.7.11/student-network-drive/Users/stevejobs
(you would put this in apple-user-homeDirectory, not OSX Home. We just mapped things a little differently.)
apple-user-homeurl: <homedir><url>afp://10.9.7.11/student-network-drive</url><path>Users/stevejobs</path> </homedir>
Note how we have Users/stevejobs in the path section. This is different than how Workgroup Manager will save it, even though it will appear to be the same path if you look at it in WGM (thanks, apple.) Unfortunately the way WGM saves it doesn't work (at least, I couldn't get it to) so you can't use WGM to assign this attribute. I ended up writing a shell script to do it.
Hope that helps. If you want the shell script, I can probably dig it up but make sure you know what you're doing with it. It is tailored to our system and I didn't bother writing any exception handling, so it could very well nuke your system, call you names and eat your dog.