[kray]

Ok… got the unix style login on a “bound” client. I typed in the username and password for a network user on the server. I got the message: “no home direcory “Network/Servers/truffula.fr.umn.edu/disk1/home1/username

I double checked WGM on the server and confirmed that the path to the home directory was in the “Full Path” box. Double double checking there is a home, with the standard folders in /Volumes/disk1/home1/username….

You are right about a problem with the netowork home, but I am puzzled because it appears to be there.

[kray]

I can’t seem to figure out the “log in with console” thing. The only thing I can find in preferences is under WGM Preferences -> Login, you have to add computer and then under options, there is a check box for “Enable console login”

I tried setting up a client computer with it’s MAC address, then under “items” checked “Add network home share point”, under options enabled “console login” as Always. I also double checked in Server Admin and made sure that the network user’s home directory was set up as a share point. And yes the client is bound to the server through directory utility.

I just don’t get why this seems so bloody complicated.

[kray]

Both client and server have most recent updates. Here is an interesting tidbit however. If I unplug the client from the network and log in, then plug the client back into the nework, home sync works!

[kray]

I got it working. And here is what I think is going on.

My university is running the dns for this machine. I have 7 different domain names in the university’s dns that all point to a fixed IP.

So if in SA you choose Servers -> Web -> Sites, you see:

site1.universityname.edu
site2.universityname.edu
site3.universityname.edu
site4.universityname.edu
site5.universityname.edu
site6.universityname.edu
site7.universityname.edu

Where site1 is the default ste and the name of this machine. I then have individual web folders set up for each site. Originally I had site2 set up for wiki, blog, and web calendar. All I did was to set up site1 as the web calendar, wiki, etc and evrything worked. For some reason site2, while able to recognize the user for blogs (I was able to log into the user functions), was unable to recognize group.

Anyone have a suggestion as to how to get site2 (any site other than the default web site), to know that the group for the wiki is in fact on this server?

[kray]

Got it!.

The solution was to

1. create a new prinmary zone.
2 Copy the zone in /var/named/zones/
3. Edit the zone file to match the zone name that I was unable to delete
4. Choose “remove zone” from Server Admin.

And by the way the thread that I am following to solve the Wiki problem is

https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=18524

I posted my latest information concerning WIkis and groups there.

[kray]

I am having a similar issue. I have wiki and blog, and web calendar enabled in Web Services for a Site, in Server Admin. I can pull up the “default” apple page and I see that the buttons “groups” and “users” are active. The users button works fine and I can log in as one of the approved users and make a blog entry. And, clicking the “groups” button, takes me to the “Available Group Wikis” page. However, clicking on the group name returns the error, “404: No group with that name (bhk) hosted on this server”.

The group does in fact exist. I can open the Directory.app and see it there as well.

I have read in numerous places that folks think this is a bug in 10.5.1, but others seem to be able to get it woking. Has anyone who has had this issue figured out a reliable work around?

One more clue… Running the comand CreateGroupFolder (as root) yeilds:
sh-3.2# CreateGroupFolder
2008-02-07 14:47:06.587 CreateGroupFolder[16898:10b] ERROR – Group count on this server is 0. The tool cannot create group folders

There are several groups in LDAP and a couple in local. Not sure what is up with this.

[kray]

Actually, this all got started when I tried to set up wiki and Web calendar. All looks correct, but I am getting the dreaded, “404 error, group is not hosted on this server”.

I have read the thread
https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=19499

but I can’t seem to sort it out. I thought that perhaps it was a dns issue. I was letting my university handle to dns, but I thought that perhaps I needed to be running dns myself in order to get this done. That is when I ran into problems with dns. Presently dns is _not_ running, but I would like to get rid of the erroneous dns rentry, then I can get back to figuring out what the heck is going on with the weird “group not found” error. The group is there plain as day under LDAP.

[kray]

Thanks for the reply.

I created it. I used the “add zone -> add primary master” option, then edited the name “example.com” to my dns. However, I hit save, before I noticed a typo. Now I can’t get rid of the bugger.

[kray]

Thanks Mactroll. Here are more details:

At this point I have two users authenticated to Local/Default (Administrator, and PostgreSQL Server)
and four users authenticated to /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 (my personal user, and three others)

Services running are:

APF
DNS
iCAL (not set up yet)
iChat (not set up yet)
Open Directory
Print
SMB
Web

You are right I do have the server set up as PDC

My personal user is also set to use a portable home directory.

The thing that I am most confounded by at this point is the fact that I have been able to mount a smb share for my personal user (from a windows computer of course), but I can get the other users (who are always on a windows computer) to be able to mount a smb share. I can even mount the other users shares if I authenticate as myself (but not as the owner of the share).

Clearly there is something different in how my personal user is authenticated from how the other users are authenticated. I just can’t figure out what it is.

[kray]

By “working”, do you mean is smb working? If so, the answer is no. I changed the server “role” to primary domain controller (PDC) and managed to get smb service working for my personal login account and one other LADP authenticated user account on the system. However, other user accounts (LADP authenticated) can still not connect via smb service. There is no difference in the the way permissions are set up for the account that can connect and the accounts that can not.

I am begining to think that there is something fundamentally broken with smb in Leopard Server.

[kray]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Magus255[/u][p]We recently reinstalled our server and have had to deal with the same kind of thing. I have found that the easiest way seems to me to login with a local admin account and move the user home directory, then delete the user, then move the files back. [/p][/QUOTE]

So you end up with the users home dir in /Users/bob/ but no user named bob?

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Magus255[/u][p]Logout and login as the user and make a new mobile account. [/p][/QUOTE]

If you have just deleted the user bob, how do you log in as bob?

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Magus255[/u][p]Then just check to make sure everything went well. For your steps 1, yes od master. 2 create user, same username and password is easier but you can still make it work without same info. 3 you might need to turn syncing on, without syncing it will just cache login info which should work for you but maybe not. [/p][/QUOTE]

Not sure what “turn syncing on” means. Are you referring to Mobility Preferences, or am I missing something?

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Magus255[/u][p]4 works. with the network home not available message, did you remember to set a home directory location and all that for the ldap user?[/p][/QUOTE]

Yes. My users home dirs are in /Volumes/disk1/home1/

I hit “Create Home now” Saved, and confirmed that the dir had been created. As and aside, does anyone know why the disk space thermometer under Server Admin -> File Sharing, for my external disk is yellow while the two internal disks are green?

[kray]

You were righ mactroll. It was login items. I ended up deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist, as soon as it was gone (and the five extra mount points that it contained references to), the odd volumes in /Volumes dissapeared and have not retured. Thanks for the assist.

[kray]

I think I’m homing in (no pun intended) on the problem. I looked in System Preferences (on both the laptop and the Server) and I see (on the laptop) 5 login items checked (one of which is afp://Servername/home1), the rest of them are not readable and system preferences is not responding. It is not hung (according to top or Activity monitor), but it is not letting me select and remove those login items.

Is there a way to get at login items from the command line? i.e. where are they kept?

Thanks, I think we are close…

[kray]

I don’t quite follow…

I do have the following Share Points specified:

Public
home1
reich_lab
home2
leaf_train_working

but I thing your are talking about something different. I looked in Workgroup Manager -> Preferences -> Login Items. I see that I have home1 set up there (as a login item) with the preferences checked on:

Hide
Mount item with user’s name and password
Add network home share point
User may add and remove additional items
User may press shift to keep items from opening
Merge with user’s items

However, unless I missed something in the documentation (which is always possible), I think these are required for an account set up as a portable home.

In addition I am looking at Server Admin -> Server -> AFP -> Connections, and I see myself loged in with 6 connections. Do I assume right that those represent the following volumes?

/Volumes/disk1/home1 (the correct and acutal home1)
/Volumes/home1
/Volumes/home1-1
/Volumes/home1-2
/Volumes/home1-3
/Volumes/home1-4

I will try removing home1 as a log in item and see if the portable home directory thing still works…

[kray]

[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] Looks like a network home directory barf…

I would say it’s pretty harmless to delete that. I’d be curious if it reappears.[/QUOTE]

I went ahead and deleted it. The world seems no worse for it. I am wondering though what a “network home direcotry barf” is, and if there is anything I can do to prevent them?

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