We ran into this problem in our first uses of OD on 10.3.5. When we
first started out with OD, we setup the clients to try to get their
LDAP info via DHCP (our xserve 10.3.5 is our DHCP server). We could not
get this to work and wound up setting up Directory Access, by
"manually" entering the LDAP config info into the client. We also found
that for our wireless laptops, we would run into this from time to time
if we didn't set the client up to attempt a "preferred network".
Hope that helps.
Regards,
-Bob
On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:44 PM, Lester Brown wrote:
We have a number of staff and students who are sporadically getting an
error message on login that says “The Home Folder for the user account
is located on an AFP or SMB server. Contact the system administrator
for help.”
After a call to Apple about this issue, I turned off Kerberos
authentication on the AFP Server, which seemed to reduce the number of
people getting the message, but it still happens several times each
day to a variety of staff and students.
We’re using Open Directory and Password server on OS X Server 10.3.5
with all the updates on 6 dual processor G4 towers with 512 MB of Ram
(5 replicas in remote buildings and one central server). The user
home folders are on a 180 GB Raid array on each building’s server,
which are exported in NFS and set up for user home folders. The
clients are running either 10.3.4 or 10.3.5, but both seem to be
having the issue. All of the clients have Directory Access configured
to authenticate against the server in their building.
Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this? The servers
don’t seem to be overloaded, the processor utilization rarely peaks
above 15 to 20%, and network utilization is pretty low, too. We’re
not running Multi User Switching, which apparently can also cause this
same error message. The vast majority of logins go smoothly and don’t
generate this error message, but when it happens, it usually requires
the user to log out and back in, or sometimes to have to restart the
machine before their home folder will come up.
TIA,
Lester Brown
Network Support Specialist
Washougal School District 112-6
Phone: 360-954-3310
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