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My Xserve running 10.3.7 have trouble creating Network Homes for new users. 6 months ago we installed the Xserve, and created around 30 network home users, who happily connects to the Xserve from their iMac G5’s as network user.
A week ago I needed to create a new user, which I did in Workgroup Manager. Clicking the “Create Home Now” button in Workgroup Manager have no effect, and if the user tries to connect to Xserve, the password is accepted, but he gets the message that the home folder couldn’t be found.
This is from a machine that have no problem accepting other network users.
On the server there is no home folder for the user, and in Workgroup Manager, the user folder can’t be found under the Users share point.
Any suggestion to what I can do here?
Ivan
You can run the command “createhomedir -a” in terminal as root (sudoed) and see if creates the folder. You might want to check that you logged into Workgroup Manager using the hostname (i.e. server.apple.com) instead of the IP address – I had this problem in Tiger but not so much in panther.
When you click the Create Home Now button in Workgroup manager, you have to hit the save button too. Some of the time this works, but I don’t trust it – use the createhomedir -a command in the terminal instead.
That was a good hint, but unfortunately it didn’t work.
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