Long story short, the Macs were booting too fast and missing the
mount. (The Xserve is in a differnt subnet.) You could login as the
local admin, HUP DirectoryServices, and then login as a network user.
Aren't network machines required to be on the same subnet?
(From a support position.)
Not sure about that. I did a quick content search on all of the 10.3
docs and there was nothing that said not to. They did mention using
DHCP distributed LDAP info to make cross-subnet stuff easier to
configure.
In this case the new Xserve lives in a data center with all it's new
server friends. The workstations are in another building down the road.
I've never had an issue with it unless there was a routing problem, and
in those cases nothing was working across the subnets.
There are somethings, like netboot, that require some trickery to get
across subnets, but for the most part it doesn't get in the way.
