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OS X 10.3 and MM Home Directory badness

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.

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.

I looked up the error on Apple's website, and it says it's a permissions error. All the permissions seem to be right from what it tells me in WM and in the Finder's Get Info box - strangely, I can't get the ls -l command to function, it just sits there and never does anything (though ls is fine).

Can anyone offer any advice? The more I learn about OS X 10.3, the more I realize I really have no idea what's going on. Your assistance is very much appreciated!

-> Mark DeHate
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