I’m new to Mac Enterprise and am seeking knowledge and wisdom from the great people I’ve seen here. I am getting some weird open directory porblems. We have several offices that are running off of an Intel Xserve running 10.4.11 running an OD master and using Portable Home Dirs and network homes for user login. We are not using Kerberos for authentication or SSL. Recently, I created some new folders for auto-mounting user directories. I think we’re up to 9 or so now of this variety. I was getting this problem every once in a while where I’d login via Remote Desktop as admin just to check out the computer, install software updates, or whatever, but when I would login, it would manage the account like it was a network user/ portable home. I would log out, and log in holding down option to disable management, and all would be fine. Now, I get it every time, and even disabling management at startup doesn’t work. I have to delete the managed preferences folder in Library just to open up the apps I need before the server puts it back there. That was working up until yesterday when a new computer started keeping me from doing that. I now am completely stuck as an admin user, and now I feel there is something terribly wrong with my OD master. I’m not sure where to go from here. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: I have deleted the LDAP server from Directory access, removed any MCX prefs and Managed prefs folders, used MCXCacher in the terminal -d and -f, gone into NetInfo manager and deleted the MCX Caches and from config. Removed the computer from any computer lists, and rejoined to the server. It works fine until I add it back into a computer list, then it starts managing everything. I checked all computer lists, even made new ones, but nothing. DNS has no problems forward or reverse that I can see. I am starting to wonder where to go from here? Do I need to rebuild my server? Are there any utils out there that can verify my OD? My background is heavy Mac OS all the way back to 7.6 but I must admit that CLI, etc. is not my forte, nor is networking. So I throw myself at the mercy of the AFP548 gods.
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