Trouble setting up network home directories

[thesser]

Dear OS X Server Gurus,

I am currently using OS X Server 10.4.3 to set up server based Home directories using LDAP as authentication. As near as I can tell, I have DNS, DHCP, and Open Directory set up correctly, but I cannot log into any network accounts. I have set up LDAP to bind via DHCP in Directory Access on the clients and that is working as confirmed by using lookupd to return user information from LDAP. I have also used lookupd to return the correct server DNS name and IP. LDAP also correctly returns users in Address Book. I have set up clients to connect to a network home server before, but this is my first time setting up the server side and I have run into a wall on this issue. When at the login screen, typing the user’s login name and password produces the rainbow beachball for about 20-30 seconds, so I’m pretty sure it is looking in LDAP for the user, but then I get the shaking login screen telling me login failed. Perhaps I am setting up the users incorrectly, but everything looks correct in the WorkGroup Manager. Open Directory is new to me so perhaps I have set that up wrong. Any tips or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Server newbie

[MDhaliwal]

Are you able to use dscl to read the LDAP info from your client? Any pertinent logs on the server or client?

[thesser]

Hmm…I have never used ‘dscl’. Is it doing something different than ‘lookupd’? I will review the logs again, but I did not see anythiing too helpful other than the authorization attempt and failure.

[maccanada]

Probably easiest to go interactive…(replace yourserver with your LDAPv3 entry name)

dscl localhost

cd LDAPv3/yourserver/Users
read username

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