Hi, I’m not a professional system admin, but I have inherited management responsibilities for the mac side of a network which mainly runs windows from a windows server. (I think server 2003)
Basically our log-ins, home directories and network mounts all work fine, with the exception of one or two issues which knowone here seems able to help with (we are a school!)
1 I have one client which stubbornly refuses to mount the network volume for any group. I have tried restarts on both the client and the server, I have unbound and rebound the client to the active directory and have tried deleting and reconfiguring LDAP with exactly the same settings as our other clients, all with zero success.

2 when all our mac clients boot up in the morning, the first user to log on top every machine gets this error back from somewhere:
“You are unable to log in to the user “username” at this time.
Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred. The home folder for the user account is located on an AFP or SMB server. Contact your system administrator for help”
After the initial error, users need to retype their password, thereafter log-ins for the rest of the session are OK.
I don’t have absolute faith that the windows servers are configured correctly, but I have no influence in this area.

Things seemed to go awry when I did a software update from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9 (but this may be a coincidence)
We are now running 10.4.11 on both server and clients.

I’s appreciate if anyone can shed any light on this – Not too technical I hope!