Home directory remote mount problems

[deemery]

I’m using Mobile accounts and a Mini server (well, the functional equivalent of same, assembled the week before the Mini Server was announced 🙁

Home directories and group folders are located on an external (FW800 RAID) enclosure, and it was working OK. Recently I replaced the drives in that enclosure using DiskUtility to create a copy of the smaller drive and then DiskUtility restore to put the bits back onto the larger disk. Most things work OK, but not mobile account synching.

In particular, if I go to a client /Network/Servers/ns.olimpia.com/Volumes/NetHome (ns.olimpia.com is the server, NetHome is the partition with home directories on it), and do “ls -laF“, I get
total 8

dr-xr-xr-x  4 emery  wheel  3 Mar 22 21:45 ./
dr-xr-xr-x  3 emery  wheel  2 Mar 22 21:45 ../
dr-xr-xr-x  2 emery  wheel  1 Mar 22 21:45 NetGroups/
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root   wheel  1 Mar 22 21:45 NetUsers/

But if I then try to go to NetUsers (the actual home directory location), I get

bash-3.2# cd NetUsers
bash: cd: NetUsers: Authentication error

I tried doing

sudo chown emery NetUsers

which worked, but then when I try

cd NetUsers

I get that same error message and the ownership of NetUsers is changed to ‘root’. Even when owned by ‘root’, it seems to me that permissions “r-xr-xr-x” should allow me to ‘cd’ to that directory or ‘ls‘ through it.

Anyone know what’s going on and how to fix it?

Thanks!! dave

[deemery]

I unshared and reshared the home directory/group directory and then rebooted. That seems to have fixed the problem.

I still don’t know what happened.

dave

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