I've been working on our 10.4 Build/Image to bring our Mac's into the next OS realm. However our testing with 10.4 is resulting in a couple of problems. If we use the mobile account, that allows user caching, the system won't log on. A check of the System.log file reports that
the user "user_name" NOT recorded in /var/log/last log because UID ( xxxxxx ) is greater than 100000.
If you turn mobile users off then the user is able to log in but you can't cache their info so if they go off network they can not log in again and they also still get the same error about the UID being set to high.
I've been able to recreate this issue using a clean install of OS X 10.4 and again after updating to 10.4.2. I've also seen the issue with Upgrading boxes from 10.3 too 10.4. I tried speaking to Apple who claimed that a limit has been placed on how large a UID can be in OS X client but I would need to purchase a $699.00 single issue Active Directory Integration Specialist Support offering to troubleshoot it. I turned them down and am hoping some others had encountered similar issues.
Unfortunately our setup is Mac Clients binding straight to Windows 2003 Domains. I realize that the ideal is to have a Mac in-between but given the small size of the environment getting our sys admin to put one in the back-end isn't going to happen anytime soon.
So has anyone run across this issue or knows of a solution other then changing all my existing users UIDs in Active Directory?