'A colleague here with a plain-vanilla Unix background and 'computer
science' background reports that they have just bought an Xserve G5,
He loves the management tools and has been learning to configure it
but has run up against a weird problem:
When he creates a new user, locally on the server, using the remote
admin tools (because the server is headless), he can create the user
without problem, but he can't create the home directory. The admin
tool allows him to give the instruction, allows him to save, and
doesn't give him an error message, but the directory just isn't
created.
He can, however mkdir a directory in the /Users directory, without a
problem - though the permissions and ownership are then, of course,
all wrong for a user home.
I have no expertise in this area of server use as in Computer
Services we use central Unix directories, not on our X-Serve.
Does anyone know what the problem might be? I assume as this is a new
box that it is 10.4.x.. another difference since I am still on 10.3.9.
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