Open directory MCX issues

[Waipouli]

I have pretty much a clean install of OS X Server 10.4.7 and 10.4.7 intel clients. I’m having an issue where after the initial booting of the machine, I can successfully log in with an OD account but I don’t always get MCX settings like, automounted shares and mobile home directory settings. After logging out, I can log in again with the same or another account and get what appears to be all the settings. I don’t think I have any issues with DNS, the clients are pointing to the same upstream DNS as the server, which has both forward and reverse lookup. I used Mike’s loginwindow manger and even set the wait time to 120 seconds. Things work great until I restart the machine again and I have to log in twice before the machine begins picking up the settings.

The hostconfig file has also been edited with the DNS name manually inserted.

I’ve been looking around the logs on the server and have only come up with a couple things:

From the System Log:
Aug 14 16:21:24 server-name mDNSResponder: Registration of record _kerberos._udp.SERVER-NAME. type 33 failed with error -65553

kadmin log:
Aug 14 11:11:31 server-name kadmin.local[24367](info): No dictionary file specified, continuing without one.

LDAP log:
Aug 14 16:23:25 osx-jun slapd[46]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (apple-mcxflags) index_param failed (18)\n in the slapconfig there are also some lines from when I first set the server up: for example 2006-07-11 13:45:27 -0700 - mkpassdb command output: kadmin.local: unable to get default realm If I need to start over with the server I can, I don't really have any users yet and only some MCX settings that will be easy to recreate. Any help is most appreciated. Thanks, Cory

[Waipouli]

So do errors like:

2006-07-11 13:45:27 -0700 – kerberosautoconfig command failed with status 255
2006-07-11 13:45:27 -0700 – mkpassdb command output:
kadmin.local: unable to get default realm
kadmin.local: unable to get default realm

Mean I need to demote and promote again?

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