[X Servers] "local" home folders

[Sytse Kuijk]

Hi Ed,

the message indicates that the set home directory is not found 
correctly. This can be due to several causes:
- wrong configuration of share point (make it automount, etc.)
- wrong configuration of home directory (cannot be local!, has to be 
on a sharepoint)
- sometimes a plain Unix directory is created when a specific 
directory cannot be found. If that happens, the sharepoint can get 
mounted on a different name, like the share name, concatenated with a 
'1' or so, which is obviously not correct and will not be recognized 
for the home directory. To get rid of that, check the client machine 
with a csh or so and check the /Network/Servers/<andsoon> where the 
mount would normally go to see if there is something wrong there. Can 
get pretty annoying to get rid of the parasite if it is there. Better 
get a good grip of some basic Unix commands to do that.

The trouble is that if anything no matter how small is not exactly 
correct, it will refuse to work.

good luck,

sytse

>Digest list here, so forgive me if this is a repeat, but...
>I'm trying to set up home folders for users on the OS X Server 
>itself with no luck.  I can select "local" , or even network or 
>advanced in workgroup mgr, but the clients still come up with "home 
>folder can not be found in the usual place."
>
>I can connect to the server over the LAN from the client and mount 
>that sharepoint just fine.
>
>I've set up a share exactly as the admin guide describes how to and 
>need some advice.
>Mac OS X Server 10.2.4, client 10.2.4.
>