[ianpiper]

I spent a long time working through a number of approaches that I have seen for this problem. In my case, what finally sorted it out for me (and it has not recurred since despite a number of restarts) was to sort out my DNS service. I had a number of inconsistencies between the DNS running on my Mac OS X Server box and the DHCP service running on my wireless ADSL router. Once I had cleared those out I found that the DNS and OD services restarted OK and my clients could log in again. None of the other common causes ascribed to this problem had any noticeable impact.

Ian.
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[ianpiper]

I had this happen a week or so ago when I created a mobile user account on my PowerBook (the account already existed on my server).

It is quite weird – on my server, the home folder is /Users/ian (owner ian:staff). On my PowerBook the home folder is /Users/99 (owner ian:admin).

They seem to synchronise OK. Don’t know if this is any help as your case seems different.

However I do have a problem with ownership of folders which I will be posting here shortly as I have not been able to get to the bottom of it.

Ian.
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