Re: OS X 10.3 and MM Home Directory badness

Subject: Re: OS X 10.3 and MM Home Directory badness
From: "Steven Kolins" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:05:14 -0500

"Mark DeHate" <email@hidden> writes:
>Hello all-
> Last week, I upgraded our OS X 10.1 Server to 10.3. I didn't format the
>hard drive, and just did a straight upgrade, so all the pertinent information
>was already set up for me - pretty much it worked immediately after upgrading.
> There are only a couple of OS X computers here, so with all the OS 9
>computers working like they did before I was pretty excited. Yesterday was
>the first day that a class had to use the new system, and the reports that I
>got weren't good, it supposedly took ~5 minutes to log in when a whole lab
>tried logging in at once.

I would have looked at fragmentation. I know it matters less but I've convinced
myself it still matters a lot (don't forget 10.3.3.)
>
>
> So today, I went into Workgroup Manager and noticed that for all the users'
>home directory settings, there was an entry on the bottom of the listbox that
>had "afp://(ip address of the server)/Users". So I thought to myself, that's
>kind of silly - the server must be logging into itself or doing some otherwise
>crazy thing that is taking forever. In my infinite wisdom, I decided to
>change the home directory from that setting to the one above it that just said
>/Users. This is a plain-vanilla one server setup, no fancy authentication,
>just all the home directories on the same server under "/Users".
>Unfortunately, all didn't work out. I tried logging in after this was
>finished and each user gets a "-23045 error", stating that the user's home
>directory can't be found.

You need client machines to have a DNS entry to find the server. And you should
put back the IP address of the server in the string (or the dns name.) Note the
DNS entry for your OSX server should be forward and backwards (PTR entry) and
preferably local to the LAN where all this is happening. Point the server and
clients to the DNS server.

' ' ' ' ' ' ''"""""""""""'' ' ' ' ' '
Steven Kolins
Alamance-Burlington NC USA, Mac Systems Tech
mailto:email@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/smkolins
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