I’ve read through the first 10 or so pages of Open Directory posts, and have seen similar posting, but nothing that quite matches the issues I’m experiencing.

I set up a 10.4.10 server. I did all the right steps in the right order. DNS working, forward and reverse lookups confirmed. Elevated the server from Standalone to OD master. Created users and created network home directories.

Set up clients Directory Access to use OD master, and DNS on hosts to use OD master as primary DNS.

Configured DHCP to distribute all the right information as well to clients.

Clients would then authenticate using OD master and mount user home directory, and create mobile accounts on laptops. All was good and I was happy.

Now, client hosts, stopped being able to auth to OD master. I took a look and OD master had Kerb stopped, and nothing I did would restart it. So…

Backed up OD db, shut down all services, and started over. Now mobile clients can auth when on network, and will execute sync home. Non-mobile clients will not auth to server, and will just give spinning beach ball, and eventually the shake of ‘wrong password’.

I’m not seeing corresponding err message in OD master, serverlog, or any other log file.

It feels like the client is using the wrong OD directory services host, but I’ve cleared that our using directory access util, and recreated that as well.

Client hosts are not bound to OD master, and user home directories appear to be correctly configured.

What should I be looking at? Are there plists or files on client host I should delete.

Client show that ‘Network Accounts’ are available, and dns resolves the OD master hostname to IP.

Incredibly frustrating, as it worked, and nothing changed, and it stopped working.

Lastly, I can log in as user on the OD master, so it really just feels like something is ‘stuck’ for client hosts.