[aurfalien]

Hi all,

Sorry for the posts.

I changed disks and all is well.

Funny thing is this disk was working fine but as the old saying goes;

everything works until it breaks.

I am happily Xen-ing away with a few virtual servers running.

[aurfalien]

Hi MT,

Well, you ain’t gonna b-leeve this but…

… before i go into it, know that I consult and as such, go into places filled with booby traps, undocumented stuff, etc….

So I find that the few macs I have been messing with had there own local dir server (yea, they happen to be OSX server installs on a bunch of MAC Pros) and had there own dir services configured with there own user database.

After deleteing all local users/group from those dbs, all my OpenLDAP users worked.

I will follow your advice on automount as I use that on the Linux machines and like it.

A side note, I did incorporate apple.schema file into OpenLDAP but the values;

apple-user-homeDirectory
and
apple-user-homeurl

Wouldn’t take when I tried to ldapadd users with those particular key values.

It didn’t break my OSX to OpenLDAP but its something to note.

Thanks again for your help, you are very good.

[aurfalien]

Hi Mactroll,

Thanks for the reply.

I have the statically NFS mounted home dirs, not autofs.

I set up the NFS mounts using both the Mecel Bresink NFS Manager tool and the Directory Utility tool in 10.5.

What can I do from here?

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