by adding ip into directory services i ASSUME that you mean on the
client so that they go direct to the server with the home folder
Hmm... he said he put the IP in as the search base. I assumed this was
in an effort to cause a timeout error on a bad config and delay the
startup.
this is a specific listed step in apples manual that all clients that
are using network homes need to have the ip address of the server with
the home folder added - without that it is very very flakey.
however that bit of info is buried at the end of a paragraph near the
bottom of a page half way through the docs and is not indexed. but as
-dhan would remind us it IS there and it IS required.
Where is this info? I just poured over the Panther docs and can't find
it. Everything says DNS name _or_ IP address. I'm just curious if you
have a page number.
to
on client - go to:
applications/utilities/Directory Access
and UNCHECK box "use dhcp supplied LDAPv3"
then
applications/utilities/Directory Access LDAPv3-Authentication:
select custom path
add line /LADPv3/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
add line /LDAPv3/fqdn
home folders will be forever unreliable without this being done.
That's not been our experience at all. Only in cases with flakey DNS
have we ever needed to use the IP instead of the FQDN. What may be
going on here is that having two servers in the Auth path slows the
boot enough to where the homes work properly.
IF APPLE WOULD CHILL ON THE BOOT TIMES THIS WOULD PROBABLY GO AWAY!!!!
Arrgh! It makes me nuts that they will sacrifice enterprise stability
so that someone's new Mac mini will boot in 30 seconds instead of 45.
