[Casper] Alias for AD network folder (script?)

[Criss Myers]

hmm

not at my server at the moment,

i have exaclty the same setup as us, AA and OD, and my users folder get
mounted correctly as their home folder, you can find it by the home icon
and this is accessable in programs save box, so how do you mount yours?

do they not save files to their Home folder???

with WGM you can also mount the users home folder at login as a folder
on the desktop, you should also be able to navigate this from a save as
box, but not at my server to test

Criss

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
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>>> "Slutzky, Ben" <bslutzky at mph.net> 27/08/08 8:52 PM >>>
Hi,
This isn¹t much of a Casper question, but maybe someone can help.
Our Macs have single sign-on enabled with Active Directory, and are also
bound to our Open Directory server for managed preferences. Users save
to
their network folder (their user folder listed in AD). But because the
user
network folders are stored in hard-to-find subfolders in a server share
containing all network folders, it's difficult for users to find theirs
when
trying to save documents. (For instance, the path to a user's folder
might
be smb://file1/users/bsmith.)
The actual server share (e.g., "users") is mounted by OS X as a volume
when
a user logs in, but they'd have to find their folder inside another
folder
in that volume. Although OS X automatically creates an alias directly to
their folder on the dock, that alias isn't accessible from a file saving
window. I couldn't find a way of "copying" the dock alias to the
desktop.

Can anyone think of a way (possibly with a script) for OS X to create an
alias on the user's desktop that links directly to the current user's AD
home directory - like the one that appears on the dock, but on the
desktop?

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Ben Slutzky