[andrina]

When you say home directories – do you mean networked home directories that Workgroup Manager then shares out and point the user to?

[andrina]

Related link sends me to FTP permissions on 10.2… I think what we’re looking for is to set the global umask for all users on a particular machine. The way I’ve done this is in the terminal navigate to /Library/Preferences and enter the following:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSUmask <value>

This is the equivalent of the traditional octal unix umask value. So, to set the global umask to the OS X 10.3 default (022), the command would be:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSUmask 18

To set the global umask to allow group rwx access (002), the command would be:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSUmask 2

[andrina]

If you’re looking to do this from the server then, it’s going to be a bit of a less intuitive way of doing this, Workgroup Manager is just finding the path to an item from where you’ve shown it it exists, if you want to change this, it will mean a bit of manual editing. While you can enable the advanced inspector in Workgroup Manager, I actually prefer a Java app called LDAP Browser for this kind of thing however. As it appears you’re managing your prefs by user this is not going to be a fun task to do manually, so look into scripting the changes (probably using dscl quite heavily). Anyway, with LDAP Browser, you’ll be able to take a look into your user and their apple-mcxsettings, and find the key and string that applies to you.

None of this is a particularly neat way of doing this, and I’ve run into similar issues in the past when trying to allow non-standard preference panes in a managed preference environment…

In the end I don’t actually use Server Admin, or Workgroup Manager all that much on my servers directly, and just use my own workstation which does have a similar environment to the rest of the workstations in the building.

[andrina]

Do you have any firewire devices connected to your server?

[andrina]

If you suspect the problem to be related to the path, why not use workgroup manager on a workstation to connect to the server as all these files in then in the correct location to stipulate the startup item?

[andrina]

Depends how old your server disks are I suppose… Otherwise, good to hear things are looking up – out of curiosity, have you tried the server media on another machine?

[andrina]

Next place to look would be clearing out the mcx_cache in netinfo then – check out /config/mcx_cache and if there’s an mcx_cache at the root of the netinfo db.

[andrina]

I may not have been clear earlier – either use the “Go to Folder” menu item in the finder, or in Terminal go to /Volumes and have a look at the contents (/Volumes is not normally visible in the Finder). If you have nothing mounted through command+k the only thing you should see in there is your mounted local hard drives.

For example, with no mounted volumes I have the following:

andrina:~ andrina$ cd /Volumes/
andrina:/Volumes andrina$ ls -al
total 8
drwxrwxrwt    3 root  admin   102 May 11 10:49 ./
drwxrwxr-t   38 root  admin  1394 May 10 16:17 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin     1 May 10 08:56 Macintosh HD@ -> /

[andrina]

So, the error -5019 is an “afpParmErr” (I found this here).

In english afpParmErr = Miscellaneous parameter error (usually invalid user name). From what you’re saying with your mount points showing up with a “-1” on the end of them, check out the contents of /Volumes – you may find note in there of mountpoints that aren’t actually mounted on the client machine – remove these, and try your script again.

[andrina]

Along the bottom of the server admin application there’s a tab called logs – you should find your error log there, otherwise, take a look at /Library/Logs/WebServer/error_log

[andrina]

Have you tried pulling the video card then? You should be able to see if the server comes up soundly without the card using another machine to simply ping it’s IP, or if this is as fresh install try using the setup assistant software (on the same subnet) to see if the machine is out there. Any “Bonjour” (zero-conf) network utility will see the machine on the same subnet if it is waiting at the “set up your server” screen.

[andrina]

Ok, so if you boot from a fw drive that you know will boot another machine, you can narrow your issue down to a hardware issue – rather than being a duff install, or bad hard drive. What version of Server are you trying to install?

[andrina]

Your replica will start to take over authentication requests if your primary server is being overburdened – this is done automatically on 10.3.x and up – just point your clients to the primary server in Directory Access. Because your replica is obviously in your OD domain, you certainly can host half of your accounts on the replica machine to spread the load – just change the home directory location in Workgroup Manager for the users that you plan to move.

[andrina]

Have you tried the hardware test that came with your xserve? Also, when you say you removed RAM and put it back again, did you try testing with just one piece of RAM alone to try and narrow down the issue? If you have another drive module, try installing a clean OS onto it, and see if that will boot – or perhaps try booting off an external firewire drive for testing.

[andrina]

Is the problem all the time also – i.e. at 3AM with only one person connected is it still slow? Do your users leave their machines connected to the share all the time, or do they log out at night? What size files are you working with also?

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