MacOS – High Sierra file sharing on Macs not working for Active Directory users

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Running Macs, High Sierra, in a lab environment. Serving K-12 students. File sharing important as students drop off assignments (files) to instructor computer. However, students logged on to the Active Directory domain cannot drop off files in the instructor's public folder–>Drop Box. SMB and AFS sharing both enabled in System Prefs (sharing). Testing with local accounts on same computers, file sharing works (local account can drop off files) but AD user accounts cannot.

Any ideas?

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Check your Active Directory settings by following this article guide

https://support.apple.com/guide/directory-utility/welcome/mac

Type

Directory Utility

in Spotlight to find and start it

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I'm not sure what to tell you about the actual problem but I can share some insight that might help you track it down. The iMac connecting to the lower case "flac" share but mounting it as "flac-1" tells me it's all ready connected to a volume named some form of flac. It could just be that it's all ready connected to the SMB NAS you mentioned.

Regardless I've seen an issue where software expects a certain path and instead of throwing an error about not finding the path it just tried to create it which then leaves a sort of null path that you have to manually remove. If you don't remove it then names like "flac-1" start appearing. Re-reading that it may not make sense but regardless the steps I've used to see what's what are firing up Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities) and typing:

ls -la /Volumes

If you see more listed here than you expect or can find through normal finder navigation then you can remove them (Only do this if you're 100% sure it's a path that contains nothing you ever want to see again!) by typing:

rm -rf /Volumes/NULLPATH

where NULLPATH is what you wan to get rid of.

Along these lines if the mini is all ready showing a "FLAC" or some such in /Volumes then you're not goign to be able to share a folder by the same name. As in if the mini is connected to the SMB NAS then you're going to have to use a different share name.

Also you can turn ownership on, on your external HD by opening the get info window on the drive and checking the box at the bottom of the window to "Enable Ownership on this volume". I'm not sue it will in any way effect your issue but might be something to try.

MacOS – OS X Server & Time Machine for Active Directory Users

Ok - I feel foolish. I found the answer within minutes of posting the question. Here is the answer:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/24844922#24844922

I had to enable 'File Sharing' on OS X Server as well, add an explicit folder (or drive) where the backups would go and add explicit permissions to that folder. You can allow 'everyone' to access it, but in my case, I have an AD Security group that contains all Mac users in the org.

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