Connection Failed

[winningham2]

I just completed the AD-OD whitepaper with great (maybe) success. But I have run into a problem once setting the user Home Directories to the OD AFP share.

My Environment:
OD Server: OS X 10.5.4 server with latest patches running just like the paper says.
AD Server: W2k3_SP2 with latest critical patches running just like the paper says.
OSX Client: OS X 10.5.4 workstation with latest patches bound to OD and AD

Here is how I see it:
I can login as Student10 with no problem, and after a short delay I see an error box pop-up and say “Connection Failed” (There was an error connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address and try again.)

My Network Home shows a question mark in the dock along with this error.

I can see from doing HOST in terminal that I can forward and reverse lookup my AD and OD servers from the client OD server. Windows can do nslookup with everyone showing up right.

My profile in AD shows I should save to a home share on the OD server (which I can get to from client to server). It is not populated with any folders specific to the user however. In other words, no Home Folders exist on the OD.

Any advice or documentation on how I can proceed in my test environment to get this up and running?

[winningham2]

MacTroll wrote:

Use dscl to see what the home directory URL shows up as after it has been converted from the UNC path. Then attempt to mount that exact share manually.

My only experience with DSCL is what I have read on the MAN Page but I seem to get a lot of DS Error: -14009 (eDSUnknownNodeName).

Is this in itself an answer to my problem or do I need to delve further?

Thanks

[winningham2]

Update:
I never really could figure out the DSCL tool based on documentation on the manpage so I started over again on my client and have had better success. I still have DNS issues (for some unknown reason since I can HOST resolve all around every way), but I can login and get home directories on the OD server by using an OD IP in the user’s AD profile.

So I am up and running enough to test it all out and see how the Mac world thinks about things. Thank goodness this document by Mr. Carson exists, and that it specifically says update to the latest service packs as that made a lot of difference too.

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