Shares without records, no home directories

[troutstudio]

I did a clean install of 10.4 on a new xServe. I created a new shared folder (AFP), set it to host home directories and also to have a Network Mount Point. When I create a new user and set his home to the new share and hit create home now and Save – nothing happens. I have run Disk First Aid (repair perms) did a restart, run fsck etc. Nothing. I tried createhomedir – terminal shows me the home folder is created – but it isn’t. Using the Records Inspector shows me that the share has no records – in fact, even the default shares have no records. The server has a mount record. The DNS files are hosted elsewhere and I get a good reverse look up. I have done this many times in 10.3 on an older machine. I can BIND to the server, but of course get the ‘Home Folder Not In Usual Place etc’ error- of course, since their isn’t one. I tried 3 installs with the same result. FQDN seems fine – when I log in to WGM as the IP address I see the FQDN in the name of the server. I am totally confused by this. I was sent media with a bad serial and I am wondering about – well – everything. I’d love some clues please. Thank you.

[Dof]

Hi, any luck with the create home dir problems ?

I’m currently setting up my first 10.4 server after doing loads of 10.3 WGM setups and now i’m seeing the same problem.

I did a usual o.d. install (standalone, no services, updates, repair permissions, dns, test, promote and check with WGM if administrating the od domain works).

[Dof]

Thanks forthe suggestion, i figured that out last night and after recreating the automount things worked again 🙂

Somehow i’ve got the idea the OD isn’t running as smooth as it did in 10.3, although it works, there are strange entries in the logs and sometime the WGM app is waiting for something if i switch to another user in the OD directory..

Let’s go googling about these entries and the meaning of all the mDNSresponder refused kerberos updates..

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