Workgroup Manager - AFP Login Items no longer mount

A wierd problem.
I have the same URL in my Login Items for all of my groups in Workgroup Manager. It is to mount a folder share. After logging in as any network user, the share will not mount, and I do not even receive an error saying that it couldn't be mounted. Also, while still logged in as a network user, even as an admin network user, and I click "Go...Connect to Server" I can connect to the server, but the share doesn't even show up, though all the other shares do. Also, when I log in locally as an administrator, or from any other computer not going through OD, I can browse to the server and hit the share.
In my attempts to trouble shoot, I have changed the URL for the share in Login Items to mount the share with SMB, and it does work.
Seems as though the problem is taht the share is being blocked to all network users when logged in through OD.
What do you suggest?

In Server Admin, under file sharing. Select your sharepoint.
Click the "Share Point" button below the file browser.
Check to make sure that all the settings are correct.
ie, if it's not a home folder location don't have auto mount checked. Also in the protocol options, check to make sure that you have the right protocols selected. AFP and SMB are probably all you need.
-Graham

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