I am still not able to find out why I get this "... home folder for
this user account is located on an AFP or SMB server ..." error.
What I have found out so far (i installed a new server for testing
proposes) by comparing my server and the test-server:
1. It is not a permission problem. The permissions for the directory
containing the home-folders has to be "drwxrwxr-x" with owner "root"
and group "admin". Changing this will lead to a user that can not get
its home-folder. This has nothing to do with guest access in the afp
server. You can switch off guest access for this share or switch off
guest access completely for the afp-service. My test user was able to
login on the client and got his home-folder automatically mounted
from the test-server.
2. I tried to change the search base of my server to
"dc=lokal,dc=cunde,dc=de" (shutdown the server, removed one RAID-1
disk, setup a new openldap database) - still no go. test-server works
with ""dc=lokal,dc=cunde,dc=de" , i reconfigured (no fresh setup) my
test server with search base "dc=testserver,dc=lokal,dc=cunde,dc=de"
and I got the error! Rebooted the test-server - error was gone and
network-home worked again. So I think the search base is not the
problem.
3. I was in the illusion that I was not using kerberos - well I
learned it by digging through the logs. I compared the config of test-
server and my server - I found no differences
4. I tested with "no home"-login works and the user gets a stupid
local home-folder "99", but every-time i switch on home-folder on the
server the problem is back.
5. I tested the german/english suggestion with no luck.
6. I compared the logs and configs of kadmind and kdc - no differences
7. I can only find a message at the client computer in asl.log that
the mount does not work. I could not find any sign on the server that
the client is in trouble. The only thing is in
AppleFileserverAccess.log a login entry followed immediately by a
logout entry.
8. I can not find any differences in /Library/Logs/PasswordService/*
for working logins and none working logins.
9. I checked /etc/hostconfig and can not see any culprits.
So this is different between my server (Xserve G4) and the testing
server(iBook G4):
My server was updated form 10.2.x to 10.4.6 via 10.3.x, I do not know
when my server lost the ability to work with network homes.
The test-server is a fresh install of 10.4 updated to 10.4.6 via
combo-updater.
So there must be a little difference between the freshly installed
and the updated server.
Any hints where I should look next? Is there a possibility to switch
on debugging? If, yes for which service?
Bye, hints are still welcome,
Christoph
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