Fast User Switching broken with network client

[Anonymous]

I have a nwteork of abou 6 machines G3 / G4 / G5 / CRT iMac / eMac all running 10.3.9, with 10.3.9 server

Fast user switching always worked OK

Now i have made the clients authenticate to the server, with network home directories. I have deleted all the local accounts on the machines apart from an admin one.

Now, If I try and do “fast user switching” from a server – based account, it hangs. I get the first half of the effect, it gets to the blue screen and then freezes there Ok for ever.

If I start from the local account it will switch OK.

Has anyone seen this and is there any fix?

thanks

[Ross]

As far as I know this has never been supported in any OSX server, I doubt it ever will. Since its over the same network connection how would the system know who is logged in and who is not.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies.

I’m a bit green, so please bear with me.

It would be handy to have FUS with network users, so it seems I can do this with NFS.

– are there any reasons not to do this? Will it break anything else like automounting of home directories, for example?

– how exactly do I do it?

many thanks

[Author]

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