In Profile Manager to mount the default home drives set for the User in Server.app, you mark a checkbox "Add Network Home," but then. Does anyone know which plist in the system, etc, that is actually referencing? because it does not work for me, and home drives do not auto-mount.
When you click "add network home" it adds text like {{{home drive}}} into the list of mount points (it looks exactly like that, but with less than and greater than signs instead of curved-brackets).
This specific question is regarding a small network where upon login, users get several mount points authenticated, and one not authenticated (they were originally set up using .mobilconfig files generated in profile manager, and previously in Workgroup Manager).
I've limited this question now to focus on the "home drives," because I believe so far, that overlapping device & user-group profiles were causing some of these problems, but I've removed these, and now, the OSX User/Networked home drives still do not auto-mount.
As a nice reference for the 2 steps involved in setting this up, see the question and answer on this Server Fault forums post. I should also add that mounting doesn't seem consitant at all, and sometimes other mount points don't come up, but this seems to related possibly to other factors.
Users login, most of the time they get these SMB shares, which via the config profiles are allowed to show up on the desktop (Finder settings), as well as get auto-mounted in Users & Groups. The problem is that they just don't show up sometimes! The Server logs are fairly clean, dnslookup is fine, the Server names all match the fqdn so the usual LDAP-related issues are in check.
OSX server is running on a Mac Mini running Yosemite with Server v. 5.0.1 (the same problem existed on server 4 as well), with the clients mostly on El Capitain, although I've seen this also in a mixed enviornment. This occurs in only about 20% of User accounts, with no pattern in the directory service information that I can see.