Automatic home folders on mac

Question

Hi everybody,
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I’m running a Pro 6 with OS 6.9.5, and I have several user accounts (mom/dad/daughter1/daughter2) and I would like to automount their home folder as a drive on the mac desktop when they log in on the desktop.
But so far, I haven’t been able to do this.
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What should be the path to a home folder on the Readynas?

Sandshark · Answer

They are individual shares, named the same as the user name.&nbsp; But they are only created once the user logs in.&nbsp; If you are trying to do this for them in advance of them ever logging in, that's likely your problem.

StephenB · Answer

Equinox1&nbsp;wrote:SMB://&lt;readynas&gt;/home ?
No, SMB://&lt;readynas&gt;/mom (or whatever the user name is).
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This only works if you are access the NAS with the user credentials for that account.

StephenB · Answer

Equinox1&nbsp;wrote:
So, there’s no way of doing a system-wide configuration that I can create for all users at boot-up?

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; So it can't be done at boot-up, it has to be automated at log on.
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&lt;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&gt;.
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Are you using a shared user account on the Mac?&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Disable the home share feature (by turning off all network protocols on "home".).&nbsp; Then&nbsp;create public shares for each family member instead.&nbsp; Those can be all mounted at boot-up.&nbsp; &nbsp;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).&nbsp; Of course the files on the PC work that way too.

Equinox1 · Answer

Thanks for the input, but I noticed that on the support article.What should the share address be?SMB://&lt;readynas&gt;/home ?

Equinox1 · Answer

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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