Shares can’t be created because Sharing is greyed out in Workgroup Admin

[Demani]

I also tried one quick stab with the sharing CLI command, but no luck there either.

Basically, this is a fresh install, all patched up, server (G4/400 GigE w/ 1.3GB RAM-this will get get upgraded the next time a machine is upgraded, luckily) to serve a handfule of people. I have full network connectivity from this machine (it runs backups of various network folders through Synchronize Pro without a problem, updates, etc.). I have set up DNS, AFP, Print, Web and Mail services. I haven’t populated any users beyond the first in the LDAP directory yet, so right now I have just my Admin, diradmin, and test user on the machine at all (admin being a local-only account). DNS is set up correctly (forward and reverse lookups both refer to each other, all other lookups perform as expected). I don’t see anything in particular in the logs-this is the complete log file:

!!Log File Created On: 3/4/2006 14:34:24 62:6:0 GMT
04/Mar/2006:14:37:26 -0500: AFP/Appletalk listener not enabled because AppleTalk is off.
04/Mar/2006:14:37:26 -0500: AFP/Appletalk listener not enabled because AppleTalk is off.
04/Mar/2006:16:55:48 -0500: Server shut down.

I also have a message that jabberd is shut down because of too many failures- I’ve now turned off iChat services since I don’t really need them (just thought it would be better than Rendezvous/Bonjour chat).

Here’s the log from the last boot-I’m getting a little bleary eyed and maybe I’m missing something:

Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 333960 free pages
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost master[51]: process started
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 70
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost named[54]: starting BIND 9.2.2 -f
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: 71 prelinked modules
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost mDNSResponder-107.4 (Nov 15 2005 21: 34:38)[44]: starting
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: using 3440 buffer headers and 3440 cluster IO buffer headers
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8020 built-in now active, GUID 003065ff fec14e98; max speed s400.
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1F535E16-B6D9-3354-8E11-D61F25E4F862
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on IOProviderClassIOResourcesIOResourceMatchboot-uuid-media
Mar 7 16:41:39 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/Core99PE/pci@f2000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/pci-bridge@D/IOPCI2PCIBridge/mac-io@7/AppleKeyLargo/ata-4@1f000/KeyLargoATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Maxtor 6L080L0 Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_1@10
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s10, major 14, minor 9
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: hfs mount: enabling extended security on Boot
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: ROM ndrv for ATY,Rage128Pd is too old (0xb59217fe)
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: obtaining ID
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: from Registry
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: ATIRage128: using AGP
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost kernel[0]: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:30:65:c1:4e:98
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost named[54]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#54
Mar 7 16:41:40 localhost launchd: Server 293f in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: “/usr/sbin/lookupd”[42]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Mar 7 16:41:41 localhost lookupd[61]: lookupd (version 369.2) starting – Tue Mar 7 16:41:41 2006
Mar 7 16:41:41 localhost watchdogtimerd: Automatic reboot timer enabled.\n
Mar 7 16:41:43 localhost diskarbitrationd[36]: disk0s10 hfs 1F535E16-B6D9-3354-8E11-D61F25E4F862 Boot /
Mar 7 16:41:43 localhost kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus – Link is up at 100 Mbps – Full Duplex
Mar 7 16:41:43 localhost configd[34]: AppleTalk startup
Mar 7 16:41:43 ServerG4 configd[34]: setting hostname to “ServerG4.local”
Mar 7 16:41:44 ServerG4 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: Couldn’t get the primary address
Mar 7 16:41:45 ServerG4 configd[34]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/enable-network
Mar 7 16:41:45 ServerG4 configd[34]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Mar 7 16:41:45 ServerG4 lookupd[94]: lookupd (version 369.2) starting – Tue Mar 7 16:41:45 2006
Mar 7 16:41:45 ServerG4 configd[34]: setting hostname to “mail.howarddesign.com”
Mar 7 16:41:48 ServerG4 servermgrd: cupsd’s bootstrap server port not found
Mar 7 16:41:48 ServerG4 servermgrd: cupsd’s bootstrap server port not found
Mar 7 16:41:48 ServerG4 mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Mar 7 16:41:49 ServerG4 servermgrd: cupsd’s bootstrap server port not found
Mar 7 16:41:49 ServerG4 servermgrd: cupsd’s bootstrap server port not found
Mar 7 16:41:49 ServerG4 kernel[0]: ATY,Rage128Pd: vram [96000000:01000000]
Mar 7 16:41:50 ServerG4 configd[34]: AppleTalk startup complete
Mar 7 16:41:51 ServerG4 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
Mar 7 16:41:53 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:41:53 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 diskarbitrationd[36]: disk2s10 hfs 3EC5028B-71A2-355E-AE8B-A3E5ABE3F202 Drive3 /Volumes/Drive3
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 diskarbitrationd[36]: disk3s10 hfs 76352C08-8193-3C98-865A-57F136CB29E1 Drive2 /Volumes/Drive2
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 diskarbitrationd[36]: disk1s10 hfs 4290D74D-7AC3-35D8-8C7A-E827E1C3AC8E Drive1 /Volumes/Drive1
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 configd[34]: target=enable-network: disabled
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 8 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:41:54 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:41:55 ServerG4 /usr/sbin/serialnumberd[145]: serialnumberd: Firewall rule #1 added to allow port 626.
Mar 7 16:41:55 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[59]: verifying cyrus databases
Mar 7 16:41:55 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[59]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Mar 7 16:41:55 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[59]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Mar 7 16:41:56 ServerG4 loginwindow[156]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Mar 7 16:41:57 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[59]: done verifying cyrus databases
Mar 7 16:41:58 ServerG4 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: Reloaded named
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 /usr/sbin/serveradmin: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Noticeisabled firewall
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 7 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 master[51]: ready for work
Mar 7 16:42:04 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[257]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Mar 7 16:42:05 ServerG4 ctl_cyrusdb[257]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
Mar 7 16:42:14 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:14 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:14 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 6 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:14 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:42:25 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:25 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:25 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 5 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:25 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:42:35 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:35 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:35 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 4 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:35 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:42:45 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:45 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:45 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 3 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:45 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:42:55 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:42:55 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:42:55 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 2 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:42:55 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:43:05 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:43:05 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:43:05 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
Mar 7 16:43:05 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: will restart in 10 seconds
Mar 7 16:43:15 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: exited with exit code: 1
Mar 7 16:43:15 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 7 16:43:15 ServerG4 launchd: org.jabber.jabberd: too many failures in succession

[Demani]

I am logged in as the local Administrator account (“Authenticated as administrator to local directory: /NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode”).

Also, when I su – root (just trying to be as uberprivileged as possible so it should work) and tried to create a new sharepoint using sharing -a /Volumes/Drive2/Shared I got nothing new when I followed it with a sharing -l. Not sure why that wouldn’t work, except it seems like the whole sharing infrastructure is pretty borked. More than a little frustrating since is the part that usually takes the least effort.

Appletalk is currently turned on in the Network preference pane. I can turn it off, but preferred to leave it on for the OS9 machines.

Any ideas on where else to look?

Mike

[Zeheeba]

I seem to remember something about an entry missing in the /etc/hostconfig file that would make the sharing tab be greyed out.

Check and make sure that the “HOSTNAME=” entry is filled out. I can’t try this right now to test it. If it is there, post your /etc/hostconfig file remvoing company name, etc and I’ll cross reference it.

I know I’ve seen this before, I just hope I’m barking up the right tree.

Regards,
Z

[Demani]

I’m glad to find someone who has seen it before. Here’s the file-should the HOSTNAME line read HOSTNAME=-SERVER- or does it need the FQDN instead (the machine hosts its own DNS-being behind a NAT-but resolves itself properly)?:

AFPSERVER=-YES-
AUTHSERVER=-NO-
AUTOMOUNT=-YES-
CUPS=-AUTOMATIC-
NFSLOCKS=-AUTOMATIC-
NISDOMAIN=-NO-
TIMESYNC=-YES-
QTSSWEBADMIN=-NO-
WEBSERVER=-YES-
SMBSERVER=-NO-
SNMPSERVER=-NO-
SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
QTSSRUNSERVER=-NO-
TIMESERV=-YES-
WEBPERFCACHESERVER=-YES-

ARDAGENT=-YES-
SOFTWAREUPDATESERVER=-YES-
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
IPFILTER=-NO-
LDAPSERVER=-YES-

[Demani]

Okay- I found out that logging into localhost works fine- its just using the DNS name that doesn’t work. So while I’m certainly not an expert it does seem to point to some sort of hostname/DNS/naming issue.

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