Newbie AFP Troubles

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Hi,

I’m newly learning OS X Server and I am having some trouble getting AFP homes (user and/or group) to work consistently. In particular, I was unable to put my Share Points on the non-boot drive (as recommended in Best Practices: Installation) as these shares then don’t work (error below).

I thought I had pacified AFP by putting the Users share on the boot drive (using /Users) and went along for a day or so testing various user accounts, but today when I tried to test an account I’d made Mobile … well, that didn’t work. On the panther client the user logged in with a local home and nearly none of the network home data/prefs, and on the Tiger client, I can’t get in as that user or the other acct I’d designated mobile, even after I switched mobile prefs off off.

The error is the “cannot logon to to this user at this time. the home directory is an AFP network share” (or some such) one.

I have read all around these forums and and also several of the site’s articles and I haven’t found the missing piece of understanding I seem to lack. I’m going to buy the Oreilly book and possibly also the Visual Quickstart book, but the B&N had neither yesterday, so I may have to Amazon them.

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
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Hi there,

I put all share points on the 2ndary drive on Xserve and they worked fine!!

Have you check whether you ‘created’ user home dir correctly? They should be under a share/mount point such as /Volumns/2ndHD/staffUsers/username. Make sure you ‘export’ the mount point first, then all stuff under that mount point can be seen by eligible users.

On the client side, it seems that you are to manage clients’ preferences, but they seem to log on to local account and mount network homes. If users don’t log on to OD, then how can you manage user preferences?

hope this helps,

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1. I’m fairly confidant in DNS. Kerberos seems to work (It’s running and I can get tickets) The DNS servers the server uses have A and PTR records for it and the test clients all use an /etc/hosts entry to supplement the DHCP server passing out a hostname they don’t have a record for (as they are using an older DNS server I haven’t replaced yet) … but it seems to work.

2. I’ve recreated them, of course, but I’ll try again. When you say automount record, what do you mean specifically? The Share Point creation in WGM is pretty ‘magical’… I made new dirs for Users and Groups in /Volumes/Data and then clicked on Share this drive in the first tab …

Thanks for your assistance. I”ve not bought either book yet as I’m still hoping to find them local.

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Okay, great, that’s what I thought you meant.

I recreated my /Volumes/Data/Users share with the afp name of UserData and now it works.

Now if only Group dirs would work. How do you create those?

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sudo CreateGroupFolder

*sigh* The lazy bastards couldn’t put a button in WGM for this yet?

And the default perms for the group folder are rw-r—– ?,so no one in the group can actually write to anything but dropbox … off to chmod some.

Thanks again for your help!

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