OD/DNS problem

[dkudler]

I’m pulling my hair out here…

I have my nice new Mac Pro set up as a gateway—nothing terribly fancy.

I’ve got OD up and running.

I’ve got DNS and DHCP up and running. The computer is called Cerberus and I’ve got a local domain—jcfoffice.org; the IP for the internal ethernet port connected to the LAN is 192.168.2.1 and the IP for the external (WAN) port is 10.1.10.2

I can get client computers to see the server on the LAN, and I can

host cerberus.jcfoffice.org

and

host 192.168.2.1

and it works perfectly both ways.

I’ve used Directory Access to set up LDAP on the clients. When I start up, I get the server-supplied list of users (in addition to the local ones).

But I can’t log on to the home directory.

Why?

Couple of odd things.

First, though I can use

host

and

dig

to check the DNS setup, when I try to use

changeip -checkhostname

, I get the following message:

Primary address     = 10.1.10.2

Current HostName    = cerberus.jcfoffice.org

The DNS hostname is not available, please repair DNS and re-run this tool.

HUH?

I’ve spent the last week talking to the AppleCare folks—they’ve been wonderful, but no help. I did a clean install. Same problem. I’ve tried using

changeip LDAPv3/127.0.0.1/ 10.1.10.2 192.168.2.1 cerberus.jcfoffice.org cerberus.jcfoffice.org

. No luck.

I’ve doublechecked the DNS settings for the various ethernet ports. All set to 192.168.2.1

In Workgroup Manager, no matter how many times I dutifully hit “Creat Home Directory”, nothing gets created. When I go to the User folder and creat folders in the users names by hand, they show up as share points not with the network name, but with the IP of the WAN port (ie

afp://10.1.10.2/Users

)

Oops.

I’ve noticed that the IP that shows up on the top of the Workgroup Manager window is 10.1.10.2—the WAN port, not the LAN port.

No matter what I do, the DNS seems to point me to the WAN port.

Help!!!

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[dkudler]

In case anyone else ever has this problem, the solution as it turned out was a simple one—I just needed to add a ‘machine’ entry in DNS for the WAN port (10.1.10.2).

In Server Admin, I went to DNS>Settings and clicked on my zone (jcfoffice.org). I then clicked on ‘Machines’. I added a new machine with the same name as the original server but the IP of the WAN port (10.1.10.2).

Voilà.

A week of work and it all came to that. 🙄

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