Network Home Dir:You cannot log into this computer

[Cabbage]

I’m trying to setup an Xserve to replace what is on an old G4. I opted to start from scratch than to CCC the drive.

The G4 has one hard drive and everything is on there. The Xserve has 3 hard drives
system – for the OS
myusers – which is where I would like to store the networked home directories
filestore – this will store files for the company

I have myusers set to automount, I have AFP guest access on. I have guest access on in AFP in Server Settings. I’ve setup Directory Access on the clients just like I have on the G4 that has been working perfectly for over a year.

I’ve format and started from scratch now 3 times and I’m having the same problem trying to setup network home dirs. If I login as an admin or regular user on any mac I get this error at the login window. I am able to change passwords if I set the user to change at next login. Also the home dir structure gets created where it should

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You cannot log into this computer.
You are not able to log into this computer.
Contact your system administrator for help.
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So after I contacted myself I didn’t have an answer. I’ve gotten this in the past but only when I setup Computer Lists to allow only certain users on a particular Mac. I have no computer lists and I still get this error whether I have Guest Computers set to inherit or define. If I make a computer list and I’ve tried with 3 different Macs I still get the same error.

What the h3ll am I doing wrong?
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[Cabbage]

I flushed the caches with Cocktail. I’m not sure if that is the right ones.

Hold option/apple/control did nothing. I know the Refresh Preferences screen you are talking about though. All my admins on network home folders get them. It says something about Workgroup Management at the top.

[Cabbage]

I just setup Panther Server on a different Mac with a different IP. I’m using LDAP instead of NetInfo this time.

Same crap! I takes the username and password but I get cannot log into this computer.

hmmm…so something wierd is going on with the clients I guess.

[Cabbage]

I restored a partition using Panther. I was able to log in!

So what am I going to do for all the I currently have?

I tried to delete these caches
/Library/Caches
/System/Library/Caches
~/Library/Caches

and these Preferences
/Library/Preferences
~/Library/Preferences

and still I’m not able to log in.

If I give the Xserve the same IP as the G4 do you think I’ll have this problem?

[EMH]

we had the same problem – also had “your home folder cannot be found in the usual place” error message – we just deleted the mcx_cache entries in netinfo databases on workstation and server and that solved the problem. give that a go.

[Cabbage]

Deleted the mcx_cache in NetInfo solved the problem.

It still bothers me that I wasted 2 days trying to figure this out. I though cache was just supposed to be temporary.

[Anonymous]

I’m having the same issue right now. Where does one find the mcx_cache? I did a search on the XServ and didn’t see it.

Thanks for your help,
Steve

[Anonymous]

Found them in netinfo manager…

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