[EMH]

we’ve had the exact same problems your describing. we had users logging in and were unable to mount their home directories – once we logged in off a local account – say root – and then mounted a volume using AFP, logged out, then it worked fine. so it appeared to be a problem with the AFP service. we put a crontask in to run a script which would mount and unmount an AFP server volume ever so often. this has kinda solved the problem, but it still happens sometimes, and we’re still plagued with extremely slow network performance. it can sometimes take up to 15 minutes for a user to log in and mount their home folder – we have an extremely large network. the LDAP lookups don’t seem to be taking long, so we suspect AFP again.

Does anyone have any solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[EMH]

we had the same problem – also had “your home folder cannot be found in the usual place” error message – we just deleted the mcx_cache entries in netinfo databases on workstation and server and that solved the problem. give that a go.

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