Home DIR’s (Sorry to revisit this)

[Peggaweng]

Hi,

I have been trying to get network home dir’s set up but my server is not creating the home folders. I have checked all the usual things like DNS and reverse DNS and the command createhomedir -a but it still will not create them. Can anyone please help me with what else I can try??

[orris]

Seen the same problem several times.

My experience with this is that the you need to disable and re-enable the afp network mount in the sharing pane of the Workgroup Manager. For some reason, that reamains unclear to me, after this the choices of home directory will work properly again. Obvously, information on the exports is being lost somehow, even though the choices are present they are ignored.

[Peggaweng]

I did disable and re-enable the afp network mount in that way but it did not work.

[Peggaweng]

I don’t know if this means anything but here goes….

I have two servers at different locations running the same level of system. One makes home folders and the other does not. I can see no difference between the setup’s other that the obvious hostnames etc. One thing I have noticed is that ont the working server when I select the Network icon in the sidebar and then Servers it shows contents of the server HD. On the not working server this Servers icon is a white alias document icon and thus shows nothing when selected. Is is possible that this is part of the issue and if so how can I repair this?

Thanks in advance

Gary.

[Peggaweng]

Ok I have fixed it. As per my previous post it seems that was the issue. What i had to do to fix this was to open Terminal and su to root, cd /automount, rm Servers and restart. When this was done going to Network in the sidebar and selecting Servers then showed an alias of my server HD which in turn showed the contents of the drive. I then used WGM to remove the network mount for home dir’s and stopped sharing the folder. I then re-enabled the share and then set the home dir mount again. After this it succesfully created the home folders in that dir when asked to and I was then able to log in and manage the account.

I hope this is of some use to others…

regards Gary.

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