Seperate Home Directories for Windows and Mac OS Mac Clients

Hi,
I have a Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard 10.6.2, with open directory master set up and then joined to Active Directory and that works fine. The only thing is that I would like the macbooks to log in, and display a home directory that resides on the mac server so they can save their video editting work. So the user has 2 home directories one on windows server one on mac but same user account.
Can this be done at all???

Hi
+"Can this be done at all???"+
There are a number of approaches you could use? Modifying the AD Schema is one way. This method is generally not considered as a viable one because of the risk of SP updates breaking the modified schema. A popular way is to use the methods outlined by Mike Bombich:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/activedir.html
This involves the use of Augmented Records stored in an even lighter LDAP database that 'straddles' (sort of) both directories (AD and OD). Yet another method would be to add redirects via AD GPOs for a home folder that resides in a suitably prepared share on the OD Master. There are still other ways depending on how hard you want to work.
AFAIK you don't want the OD Master in all these scenarios to be the KDC.
There is a wealth of information regarding this which you could google for yourself? AD-OD Integration has been going on for at least 4 years now in form or another all with varying success. How successful the integration is depends (as ever) largely on how well the AD environment has been configured. The most successful integrated sites in my experience involved the AD environment being configured from the outset to accommodate the mac platform.
There's a lot of useful stuff over on edugeek.net:
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/
Read some of the stickies at the top of the Forum. One of them refers to Corey Carson's AD-OD Sandbox. Another site you should visit is:
http://www.afp548.com/search.php?query=AD-OD+Integration&type=all&mode=search
Tony

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