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Re: Weird Active Directory login issue



David and Tim,

While not the exact symptoms, the solution found here may work: http://lists.apple.com/archives/client-management/2007/May/msg00161.html 

Have a good day,
Chuck

"McCLEARY, TIM" <email@hidden> writes:
>David,
>
>I have a ticket open with Apple regarding this very issue. The Apple tech was able to reproduce the issue himself, so it does appear to be a bug. He's escalated it up the chain, but is trying to find a workaround for us for now. I have found that
>if I kill the loginwindow process, which forces it to restart the loginwindow, I can get an AD user to logon the first time without the error message. It appears to be an issue with the loginwindow appearing before the directory services are fully
>loaded. Our early attempts at writing a startup script or launchdaemon that will kill the loginwindow once it appears so far haven't worked very well.
>
>I'll post more once we make some progress on the issue and can further nail down the cause.
>
>Tim
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: macos-x-server-bounces+tmccleary=email@hidden on behalf of David Boyer
>Sent: Wed 6/27/2007 3:26 PM
>To: email@hidden
>Subject: Weird Active Directory login issue
> 
>Hello all,
>
>I'm not sure if I have posted here before or not or if there is a  
>better suited list for this question. My issue is that my latest  
>image is using Directory Services AD plug-in is acting strange on AD  
>logins. What is happening is that when you login using your Active  
>Directory account your first presented with a dialog about "The home  
>directory could not be located because it's on an AFP or SMB share,  
>please contact your system administrator". You click on the "Ok"  
>button and the login window shakes it's head no. When you try to log  
>back in it works fine..... now, it continues to work fine until you  
>restart so this appears to be some cache, database issue within the  
>system.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this to happen? This is  
>only happening on this one image (my latest build). Very strange.
>
>Thank you
>David Boyer
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