10.5.6

Here's another update on my experiences with 10.5.6. So far, my initial problem "seems" fixed. But I do have a weird thing happening. When I originally bound my Mac to AD, I didn't set up the mobile user feature. So, when I would get the login screen, I would have two options: local user or Other. Other would prompt me for credentials, I would enter AD credentials and I was on. In the past several months with some testing I've been doing, I activated the mobile user feature so I now also have a login icon that has my AD user name in it. It allows me to login into AD with my AD credentials just like Other.

When I was having the trouble I documented in the previous post with even being able to connect to an SMB share, I was using the Other login. As I documented, I finally got it going. Today, for some reason, I logged in using the mobile user icon. I got onto the desktop without issue, but noticed that my SMB shares didn't mount in Finder. When I tried to do it manually I had the same issues that I had the day before. I immediately logged out and then back in using Other and the problem vanished. That's really odd, considering both icons take me to the same user profile and home folder...