Unable to login as mobile account / force local home

[erd]

Managing 10.4.x workstations and trying to get AD logins to work using OS X AD plugin set to “create mobile home” and “Force local home directory”.
AD user accounts get stuck at the login window. The user name and password field are greyed out and the computer sits like that for a long time. Computer responds when pressing the power button to restart, shutdown, sleep, or cancel.

[i]Console reads: automount 174: can’t mount server name …. invalid argument (22) [/i] over and over

tried setting automount in /etc/hostconfig to NO and that just keeps returning the “unable to login as user …. afp/smb error”

If the AD plug in is cofigured with out the “create mobile home” and “force local home directory” checked, the AD user can log in with a true network home directory.

Seems like the login doesn’t work when it’s set to create a mobile home and mount the users network folder in the dock.

Clients are Mac 10.4.9 + / WIndows/Active Directory 2003 / OS 10.4 server for management purposes.

any ideas?

[CostasPPC1]

Same here. That is the way Iam trying to setup a Magic Triangle solution. I guess something is wrong with DNS. Try set the domain name into the “Search Domain” box on the Network Preferences of the client.

I have tried all that, though. I couldnt get it to work the right way whatsoever.

Maybe MacTroll or someone else can help us here

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