directory named 99?

[kray]

A new directory appeared in root (/) partition yesterday. It is named 99 (no agent 99 jokes please). What the heck caused this? Can I just delete it?

[kray]

Yes.

truffula:/99/Library/Preferences root# ls
.GlobalPreferences.plist

[ianpiper]

I had this happen a week or so ago when I created a mobile user account on my PowerBook (the account already existed on my server).

It is quite weird – on my server, the home folder is /Users/ian (owner ian:staff). On my PowerBook the home folder is /Users/99 (owner ian:admin).

They seem to synchronise OK. Don’t know if this is any help as your case seems different.

However I do have a problem with ownership of folders which I will be posting here shortly as I have not been able to get to the bottom of it.

Ian.
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[kray]

[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] Looks like a network home directory barf…

I would say it’s pretty harmless to delete that. I’d be curious if it reappears.[/QUOTE]

I went ahead and deleted it. The world seems no worse for it. I am wondering though what a “network home direcotry barf” is, and if there is anything I can do to prevent them?

[-mcg-]

I just had this happen a few moments ago. In my case, I had logged in to a new admin account that had no network home directory specified in WGM when I initially created it. Looks like it just contains the Desktop and Library directories…

[Waragainstsleep]

I recently tried to setup an Xserve as a software update server. It has been running for sometime but only as a QMaster node for compressing video. It wasn’t running any services at all.
I setup an open directory on it and created a “software update” user. I mirrored updates from Apple and when they had downloaded I started the softwre update service.
I then bound an iMac test rig to the directory and logged in as the software update user.
A user folder was created on the iMac called “99”. I didn’t check ownership, but it was the software update users home folder.
When I checked on the Xserve, a folder had been created in Users called “99”. I took no steps to enable mobile home directories.

Can anyone explain whats going on here?

[Anonymous]

Exact same thing happening to me, only mobile home profiles are enabled.

We too turned on Apple Server Update at about the same time. I’ll have to test it again with that server turned off and see what happens.

It seems that all accounts created do in fact end up with home directories called 99.

If anyone has figured this out please email me at brannan at mac dot com

or post here.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Fixed.

In OD under the Home tab, you have to create the home folder first. Just click the button “Create Home Directory” and click “Save”.

Give it time to propagate, logout, login and it will start working.

It creates a NFS share on a server – then it is happy.

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