I’ve seen this happen on AFP network homes. In my case, when I looked at the logs on the server that hosts the machines it had this notation in the system.log:
Jul 3 08:44:03 myserver crashdump[23963]: automount crashed
Jul 3 08:44:04 myserver crashdump[23963]: crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/automount.crash.log
Sure enough since the machines with network homes weren’t able to automount the user folders before login, they couldn’t connect. A restart of the server seems to have fixed the problem, although, I rather suspect that simply restarting AFP on the machine might have worked too. You can usually determine if it’s unable to mount the directory in question by logging in with a local account and looking in /private/Network/Servers/myservername/ if it appears that there is nothing inside this location, odds are that you aren’t able to connect to that server via automount.
Hope this is helpful,
Del
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