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  • March 24, 2010 at 8:08 pm #378273
    edwyr42
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    Afternoon,

    I have a new mac mini with Snow Leopard (10.6.2), fully patched and configured. This box sees my local nets, nfs mounts, OpenLDAP, etc, and seems to work fine for local accounts (root). I can ssh(1) into this box using a domain account (samba NT4 PDC, v3.3.3) and this seems to work just fine. When I log onto the head of the mac mini using a domain account, that still works over ssh(1), I get logged in but very quickly (moments) nothing will start. Terminal crashes, safari will not launch, after terminal crashes it will not relaunch.

    I can’t even log out.

    I must ssh(1) using the same account, sudo to root, then ‘shutdown -r now’ to get the box to start again.

    The ldap queries are working ok both when I ssh(1) in and do a ‘ls -l /home’ I see the right resolved user names coming from OpenLDAP. When I log into the console I see my home directory (/home/$USER) with the right files, etc. The NFS mounts (/home) come from a Fedora Core 5 linux box.

    I’m not trying to use the mac mini as a server. I’m trying to get it to work as an orderly component of my internal network.

    What is going on here and how do I fix the situation? I have this same problem with an iMac 27″ running Snow Leopard (10.6.2), so I don’t think this is hardware related. At this moment I have two Snow Leopard (10.6.2) machines that people can’t use just sitting here.

    Mike

    March 30, 2010 at 9:00 pm #378304
    edwyr42
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    I thought I read the clue here, oh well. Somewhere still researching this issue I read a question about a flaky NFS server. As my NFS server is on a stock Fedora Core 5 box I decided to upgrade NFS (couldn’t hurt). There are not packages that I can find for NFS on Fedora Core 5 so I upgraded from source from something like 1.0.8 to 1.0.9. It doesn’t sound like a lot. Snow Leopard, both 10.6.2 and 10.6.3, must be doing something different or more restrictive than Leopard, 10.5. The home directories now work without error.

    The world is a happier place for me today.

    Mike

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