SMB User Home Directories - 4 hours and still stuck

[1337Hacker]

I have looked through countless articles (most of which are highly outdated unfortunately, currently running 11.0 - U4) and I still can't figure out how to get my user home directories to work. Sharing works perfectly fine — I've created shares and users can access folders based on set permissions. I can't for whatever reason get the the user home directories to work though. They are visible in the Network under EMBASSY, but will not open for users. I'm about to throw in the towel and just setup individual folders with custom permissions and skip home directories. I was just trying to learn how to get these to work since it seemed pretty straight forward.

Everything I do with a user directory within a home share results in "The network path was not found". I've checked "net use <ip address>\Aaron" in a cmd.exe and get a System error 53. Oddly, if I "net view <ip address>, the user (Aaron) Share Name is visible and says "Home Directories".

Current setup:
Home Dataset: /mnt/Ambassador/Home
SMB Share: Home (use as home share is checked)
User Home Directory: /mnt/Ambassador/Home/Aaron

Did I miss something incredibly obvious? I really don't understand, please help!

 

[Artion]

Could you please send a screenshot of the user options as in the following?

 

[1337Hacker]

Thank you for the reply! User Aaron settings below; currently using Win 7.

 

[Artion]

Can you try to tick 'Microsoft Account' and see if it works?
What version of Windows is the client using?
Can you also check the server minimum and maximum version for SMB in the services tab?

For a quick check, try ticking NTLMv1 in the SMB service settings and see if this way it connects.

 

[1337Hacker]

Tried ticking "Microsoft Account" and it didn't fix the problem.
Client is on Windows 7 Pro
See attachments for SMB, Dataset, and Share settings. Perhaps one of those is off.

I ticked "NTLMv1" and still cannot access the user directory.