[MacTUG] followup to question today about Mac issues mounting smb home directories

[Ian Turner]

the long story started with Tiger, but Leopard had significant differences

For Tiger, we followed:

http://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=17096
  gives a solution - namely change the AUTOMOUNT from YES to NO
  in /etc/hostconfig.

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The symptom we were seeing was "unable to log in". After much chasing, 
eg, it would be "solved" by a reboot; we determined it was because 
previous users home mounts were "hanging" and trying to automount - and 
of course failing authentication!
For Leopard, (reference an article on MacWindows dated June 20, 2008)
we did:

Using Lingon - under System Daemons - com.apple.automountd
"un-tick" Enabled
click "save"

as root
edit /etc/auto_master
and "hash out" so it looks like:

#/net -hosts -nobrowse,nosuid
#/home auto_home -nobrowse
#/Network/Servers -fstab