Upgrade weirdness

[justyn.pride]

I upgraded my 10.3.9 server today to 10.4. Before doing anything else I ran the updates to 10.4.3. When running Work Group manager it would not authenticate as LDAP, only the local users. Open Directory was working ok, and with no errors in the logs. I reviewed the DNS setup, and the settings weren’t there so set it up again. This then allowed me to access LDAP users in work group manager.

My problem is that although the users can be seen ok, their home directories don’t have any users allocated to them in the ‘access’ section. When moving the relevant user to the user box, and saving, it says that the user does not exist.

Has anyone any ideas?

Justyn

[fherbert]

You may find that the userid for the 10.3 users does not exist – or does not relate to the correct user for some reason on the 10.4 server… only thing I can think of at the moment.

You can quickly check this out by opening terminal and getting a directory listing of the /Users/ folder (ls -la /Users/) to see who has been assigned ownership of each user folder. If you see a number instead of a name, then the userid – username has gotten out of sync for some reason during the upgrade. You can double check what the userid should be by viewing the list of users in workgroup manager and check the userid field next to the username in the userlist on the left hand side.

Have a look at that and see if this is causing your problem.

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