Automatic home folders on mac

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Equinox1 wrote:

So, there’s no way of doing a system-wide configuration that I can create for all users at boot-up?

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The home share name for each user account matches their user name, and requires you to access the NAS using either that user's credentials or the NAS admin account.  If each Mac user name (and password) matches their NAS user name, then you might be able to automate it - though again, each user needs to log into the Mac for that to happen.  So it can't be done at boot-up, it has to be automated at log on.

<Note, you could mount all the home shares - or the full data volume - using NAS admin credentials. But I wouldn't do that for this use case>.

Are you using a shared user account on the Mac?  If you are, then I suggest creating a shared user account on the NAS, and use that credential on the Mac to access the network shares.  Disable the home share feature (by turning off all network protocols on "home".).  Then create public shares for each family member instead.  Those can be all mounted at boot-up.   But since you are using a shared PC with a shared log on, those shares won't be restricted (so all family members will be able to see them and access them).  Of course the files on the PC work that way too.