User Home folder requires multiple logins

[ShaneS]

Hi all,

I have searched the net, tried clearing cache file, re-done Netinfo db on a few system, all to no avail at solving this problem.

We have teachers who login to our OS X Server (10.3.9..i know outdated..no monies to upgrade). For the past 2 years they have complained they have to login and out to get the desktops and home folders to appear (all of which are stored on the server).

I am NOT that experienced with Mac, but I am getting better each year. I am somewhat familiar with Linux so the command line not scary to me.

I am looking for a way to troubleshoot this problem. I have checked the console on the individual Imac(the older blue guess you call them G3Imacs), and I can not find any significant error on any of the error log branches. I found an ever so common yylex: Error, which google resulted in no real solution or clear app for the error, but seemingly 100% un-related.

So, I am stuck not sure where or what to check. The only other information I can really provide is that the student account do not seem to have this problem, and I do NOT think new teachers have this issue. The older teachers were apparently migrated from OS 8 to 9 then to 10. I am not clear on the history of this as I came into the system about a year and a half ago, and everything was on 10.3 then.

I am going to try and use http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107256 to help me out while awaiting any answers or suggestions here. Skimming it and a few other docs I am guessing a share point could be the problem, but then why would it work at all?

I am on a PC, and can VNC into the server or clients, so I can either use SSH or VNC, and be at the system if I need to use the single user command line mode. Not sure if it is relevant but I can not see any shares from the PC if I pull up the IP of the server using run.

Not sure what server information you need other then it being 10.3.9 with 1.5Gb ram, <150 clients MAX, never all of them logged in as 30 of them are off most times in a cart, and many other sit as a login screen.

Let me know what else you might need and where I can start digging thanks!

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