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Re: Xserve: "Localhost" hostname causing problems w/home dirs

Is there a good, easy way during setup to set a hostname on an Xserve?
I've got two that are going to be in the same cabinet and same subnet, and
will require different names, obviously....

-John

# John D. Buell - email@hidden and email@hidden #
# District Computer Technician #
# Cook County School District 87 #
# Cook County, IL #

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, James Tolchard wrote:

> > Just got our company's new Xserve (dual 1 Ghz, 4x120GB HD, 2GB RAM) and I'm
> > having issues getting server monitor to play nicely with local home
> > directories.
> >
> > All of our boxen are currently on a private network behind our DSL router and
> > as such don't have reverse DNS. This has never been a problem, but now we
> > can't use our cool new Server Monitor app. No problem, I switch hostname to
> > "localhost" and the Server Monitor works great (cool little app, btw).
> >
> > Here's where the problem hits: After switching hostname, when I sit down at
> > the Xserve and log in, I get the error message that my home directory cannot
> > be found. Weird, I switch the hostname away from "localhost"--home directory
> > works great again.
> >
> > I looked in Server Admin and the home directory settings look fine (set to be
> > a local home directory on the Users share point with the correct IP).
> >
> > Anyone else have any problems with this and/or have any work-arounds? I've
> > never set up DNS before, but if getting DNS on our private network would make
> > things work better, I'm open to new things.
>
> Hi
>
> Rather than being recorded as (for example) /Users/ted, your home folder
> location may have been stored as something like
> /Network/Servers/YourServerName/Users/ted. Which, when you change your server's
> name, suddenly becomes invalid.
>
> You can check what your home directory is stored as by looking in your user
> account using NetInfo Manager (/Apps/Utils) or by using /usr/bin/nicl or
> /usr/bin/niutil.
>
> Hope this helps
> James
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