Airport Disk as home directories for server

Is it possible to use an airport disk / time capsule as NAS host for home directories?
I've seen no mention of being able to bind the disk to OD/Kerberos (network accounts). Seems that would be necessary for hosting home directories.
Or, would it simply be a matter of creating airport disk users (and passwords) which match those in OD?
Anybody doing this?
Thanks!

When you log in to the linux machine, do you get an error that states that the home directory for the user cannot be found? That error message should give you the path that is set in the LDAP directory as the home directory for that user. This directory needs to be added to the Linux filesystem, and then the Users folder on the OS X Server needs to be NFS mounted (rw) on the Linux machine.
For ease of transition, I softlink /home to this directory on the Linux machines.

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Network Home Directories for all users

Hi,
I hope someone can shed some light on a possible issue.
I work for a primary school in the UK.
I have Tiger server 10.4.10 running as an Open Directory Master. I have a 1TB XRAID attached to this server where the Home Directories are hosted. I have been told that they are now slow at logging in (I am currently unwell at home so have not confirmed this yet).
It used to be a magic triangle setup but found there were problems with the managed prefs for the clients not being obtained on startup and network logins not working.
The DNS and DHCP comes from the AD still.
The OD has been set up to have the same kerberos realm as that of the AD (is this wrong) as the users are in both AD and OD with same username and password.
The users Home dirs for the OD are hosted as i say on the XRAID which has a striped array of 1TB so the HDD speed shouldn't be a problem.
The server is now connected to a 1Gb switch as are the clients.
I have added more ram to the Xserve (now running on 5GB RAM). I have read that an afp server needs a lot of ram to work effectively. Is this enough?
I have not set up link aggregation yet.
The total amount of users logging in at one time will be no more than 40 users at once as there are only 40 mac machines in the school.
I hope you can help as i would like to have something to go back to school with to tackle this if it does turn out to be true.
Any more info needed just ask.
TIA

Hi. Let me restate so I understand it right. You are using an XServe to host network home folders and also using Active Directory for authentication? I work at a primary school also and we have an XServe that has the users home folder on it, but we also connect to an AD server for authentication. We had some speed issue with logging in but as soon as we set up a time server to ensure that both the XServe and AD server had the same time the trouble was fixed. Hope this helps.

Workgroup Manager doesn't create home directories for OD accounts

I'm having an issue where home directories aren't created for OD accounts. My setup is as follows, the home directories are stored on the OD Master (the only Apple/OD/AD server on the network), and the home directory paths are filled as afp://192.168.1.254/Customers, fakeuser, /Users/Customers/fakeuser
This same pathing scheme works fine for local accounts, however for OD, clicking Create Home Directory and saving the account does nothing (no errors, nor folders created). If I ftp into said account, I wind up being directed to /Users (definitely not the expected behaviour)
I am deploying a web based upload system that I want to authenticate against OD users so as to share home folders and permissions with the ftp server, once I have this figured out I will be migrating a bunch of accounts to OD from local.

In addition to potential DNS issues, it sounds like you may be using the wrong procedure to define the users' home directories. You should never have to specify the paths manually; instead, define the share point ("Customers" in your case) to be automounted, and then it should automatically show up in the list of available home folder locations, with all the necessary paths predefined. Here's the full procedure:
1. Run Server Admin, and select: the server name in the sidebar -> File Sharing in the toolbar -> Volumes & Browse under that -> navigate to the /Customers folder in the column view.
2. Make sure the folder is being shared (with it selected, you should see an "Unshare" button near the top right of the window); if not share it with the Share Button (then Save the change).
3. Select the Share Point tab under the file browser (NOT the one above it), and select the Enable Automount checkbox. A dialog will open asking for the automount details; make sure the Directory is set to /LADPv3/127.0.0.1, Protocol to AFP, and Use for is User home folders and group folders. OK the dialog, and be sure to click Save to make the change take effect.
4. Run Workgroup Manager, and select Accounts in the toolbar -> Users (single person icon) tab under that -> some user account(s) you want to configure under that -> Home tab on the right.
5. Select (None) from the location list and click Save (this wipes out any current setting, so we can rebuild it correctly).
6. The Customers share point should be in the list of available locations (due to being configured for automount); select it, then click Create Home Now, and finally Save.

Crearting Home Directories for AD clients

I am trying to create Home Directories on an Xserve for AD clients. We get a permissions error when the PC server attempts to create the folder.Am I missing a step ?

Three steps actually. >=)
1: Yell loudly
2: Push the PC server off the desk
3: Kick it across the floor.
Okay okay... Just kidding.
It's an issue with the PC server trying to use it's own permissions to create the folder. Make sure the directory that the PC's trying to place in has the "everyone" posix permissions set to read and write.
After you're done creating folders, set it back to read only.
-Graham

Seperate Home Directories for Windows and Mac OS Mac Clients

Hi,
I have a Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard 10.6.2, with open directory master set up and then joined to Active Directory and that works fine. The only thing is that I would like the macbooks to log in, and display a home directory that resides on the mac server so they can save their video editting work. So the user has 2 home directories one on windows server one on mac but same user account.
Can this be done at all???

Hi
+"Can this be done at all???"+
There are a number of approaches you could use? Modifying the AD Schema is one way. This method is generally not considered as a viable one because of the risk of SP updates breaking the modified schema. A popular way is to use the methods outlined by Mike Bombich:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/activedir.html
This involves the use of Augmented Records stored in an even lighter LDAP database that 'straddles' (sort of) both directories (AD and OD). Yet another method would be to add redirects via AD GPOs for a home folder that resides in a suitably prepared share on the OD Master. There are still other ways depending on how hard you want to work.
AFAIK you don't want the OD Master in all these scenarios to be the KDC.
There is a wealth of information regarding this which you could google for yourself? AD-OD Integration has been going on for at least 4 years now in form or another all with varying success. How successful the integration is depends (as ever) largely on how well the AD environment has been configured. The most successful integrated sites in my experience involved the AD environment being configured from the outset to accommodate the mac platform.
There's a lot of useful stuff over on edugeek.net:
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/
Read some of the stickies at the top of the Forum. One of them refers to Corey Carson's AD-OD Sandbox. Another site you should visit is:
http://www.afp548.com/search.php?query=AD-OD+Integration&type=all&mode=search
Tony

Home directories for Linux clients?

Hello,
I want to setup OS X Server to serve as an authentication server for Mac-, Windows- and Linux-clients. I have the services DHCP, DNS, OpenDirectory (as Open Directory Master) and Windows (as PDC) running.
So far there is no problem to login on the three different platforms via LDAP. In WGM I set the home directory for Mac-clients and activated the virtual homes feature for windows. On both clients I get the network home functional but on the linux client the home does not appear.
How do I configure the server to realize that? I thought that the linux clients would use the samba share that the windows clients use.
iMac G5 (iSight) 20" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

When you log in to the linux machine, do you get an error that states that the home directory for the user cannot be found? That error message should give you the path that is set in the LDAP directory as the home directory for that user. This directory needs to be added to the Linux filesystem, and then the Users folder on the OS X Server needs to be NFS mounted (rw) on the Linux machine.
For ease of transition, I softlink /home to this directory on the Linux machines.

How to set NTFS and share permissions for Users share for home directories in Server 2012

I have a new Server 2012 server, and I want to set up a Users share, that will contain subfolders of each user's username and contain their home directory. But what do I set the share and NTFS permissions as on the root level, lets call the folder
Users? Is the following older article the correct permissions I need?
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443

Hi RJO22,
You can choose configure the Folder Redirection, Folder Redirection enables you to redirect the location of specific folders within user profiles to a new location, such as
a shared network location. Folder redirection is used in the process of administering user profiles and roaming user profiles. You can configure Folder Redirection using the Group Policy Management Console to redirect specific user profile folders, as well
as edit Folder Redirection policy settings.
The related KB:
Folder Redirection Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732275.aspx
Specify the Location of Folders in a User Profile
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771969.aspx
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Mac OS X Server, Network Home Directories & Time Machine

hi,
I am using mac os x server to manage a small workgroup using open directory and network home directories, the server is backed up using time machine. From what I understand, time machine does work on network home directories.
However, as I am backing up my server using Time Machine, it is already backing up the user directories. Is there any way of getting a client to access the server time machine backup to access the backups of the user directories?
Of course, it would be easy to restore files by logging onto the server as the user and restoring from there. I am just wondering if there is a more elegant solution available to do this from a client machine.
any thoughts?
thx!

Hi,
I am trying to do the same exact thing and find that it is best to do this locally (for now). Not only is the network way slower, but it seems to make things worse. For example, things backed up via the client machine are routed from the FTP server/volume mount and different permission wise. When you try to restore them locally, it should work, but the folder had different permissions because they were initially created in root (for me). So, I hope they would come out with something better than what is available now. Thanks!

No Trash on OD Server located Home Directories

We have about 20 10.6.3 OSX Clients bound to an 10.6.3. OSX Server with Home directories stored on the Server. The Home Directories are served to the Clients via NFS.
What was working fine with 10.5 server and 10.5 clients and even with 10.6 server and 10.5 clients now stopped working with both server an client running on 10.6.
If one puts files from the remote home directories to the trash the Finder is not able anymore to place them in the trash, it just displays a message the files would be deleted immediately.
I have done all the usual magic: deleting the .Trash directory, changing rights on that dir, etc.
It seems the finder does not recognize the Trash folder any more. If i delete the .Trash dir it will not be recreated the next time i trash one file. If i put one file inside the .Trash dir with terminal it will be ignored by finder.
this happens with older users generated users as the server was on 10.5 and (sadly) even with new users generated on 10.6 for testing.
Does anyone have a solution for this or has encountered the same error?
Thanks,
Ben

I wonder if it is an NFS issue?
We are serving network homes via AFP and do not have the issue.
Be sure that there is a .Trashes directory on the root of the volume your network homes are on as well as the .Trash folder in the root of each user's home.
Other than that if possible make a switch to AFP and see if it works. That will help narrow it down.

Home directories not being created

Hi,
I am having trouble creating home directories for users on my OSX Server Tiger 10.4.4 running on a mac mini.
Home directoried do not seem to be created for users on my Open Directory.
I have configured my server to be an Open Directory master. I have no other Open Directory replicas/Servers running.
I have set up and configured DNS. It appearts to be working correctly and can resolve my server name to the local IP (10.1.1.X) and give me a fully qualified domain name.
When accessing users on my OpenDirectory via the work group manager the directory name comease up as "LDAPv3/127.0.0.1" (local host possibly the problem).
When I click on the "Create Home Now" button and hit save, the home dirs are not created.
I have checked to make sure that the home directory is shared (owner root) and it seems okay.
I have read some other threads on topics similar to this, but have had no luck. I would appreciate any help in trying to fix this problem.
Please let me know if any further information s required.
Cheers

I had the same issues you've described in this thread. It turned out that I had named my server "morris", and when the client machines went to mount a user's home folder, they attempted to mount /Network/Servers/morris/Users/whoever. When I went to the Finder, I clicked on the Network icon, then the Servers icon, and listed under there was "morris.domain.com" (where domain.com is your own local domain), but not "morris". So it appeared that there was a name mismatch.
The fix was easy. I started up Server Admin, clicked the machine I wanted to fix, clicked the Settings tab in the right pane, the Network tab up top, and changed the "Computer Name:" field from "morris" to "morris.domain.com". From that point on, my login problems went away.
It seems that the Server Admin-set "Computer Name" has to match the machine's FQDN in DNS.

Multiple Home Directories

I have a OD server running 10.5.2 and and 10.5.2 file server that is a member of the OD. I am curious if this is possible:
I'd like local home directories for all of the computers (which i currently have set up in WGM by setting the home dirs to /Users. But what i'd also like is for them to have a network home directory that they can save files to for personal use. Right now i have the share set up so that there is a folder called /Users on the file server and i'd like any folder in there to be able to be mounted by doing afp://server/username
are having both of these at the same time possible?

This was my point. I wanted total separation. In order to create that separation (when trying to use a network user) I had to temporarily move the existing Snow Leopard Users folder (on Partition 1) so that the Partition 2 OS (either Snow leopard or LION) will create it's own User directory structure. This is only needed for network users (i.e. ones that authenticate via OSX server).
Once the process of temporarily moving the Users folder, letting the new instance create it's own directories, and renaming back, everything works. i.e. when I startup Snowleopard all operations are within Partition 1 then if I start LION all operations are within Partition 2.
When installing new versions of an O/S I like to have control and manage the change so that I know I have a totally working system. Been doing the same with Linux for years, but Mac OS/X tries to be a bit too clever!

No longer able to create home directories

I'm having a slight problem here. Recently after adding some new users, with PHD activated I have been having problems creating home directories on the server.
If i am in local node I can create home directories, but once i switch over to LDAP/myserver home directories are no longer created ---> this leads to me no longer being able to sync homes or do anything.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I've deleted the users directory, created new ones, turned the ldap service off, restarted, turned it back on, restarted, added new users tested tested tested to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.

My Woes continue :
So far I have reinstalled OSX server, re-set everything up for an OD master, dns ,afp ect. And I am still having issues with WGM to create home directories for my users. SO, i decided to create all my users and than type in terminal : createhomedir -s --> the end result no changes.
Next I tried
Createhomedir -b and voila I get all my home directories built. Fantastic. Or so I think. so i start to log all my PHD users in, everything seems good. Than i start a test, simply downloading a file to my desktop. I hit sync now. The sync window comes up, few conflicts but other than that everything looks great. I goto the users home directory on the server and no changes.
So where are my PHD's syncing to?
This is getting very frustrating because I am pretty sure nothing is being backed up anymore.
any advice would be great.

Portable Home Directories

I have a Tiger Server that hosts portable home directories for my Leopard Clients.
I cannot get a portable home directory to sync with my Snow Leopard client.
Is this possible?

I have a snow leopard server. My < 10.6 clients can still mount their remote home directories using smb, but my snow leopard clients cannot. Has anyone shed any light on this issue?
my client log says:
Nov 13 09:43:40 bach07 authorizationhost[165]: cifs home directory mount failed in creating directory path: status = Authentication error
Nov 13 09:44:41 bach07 edu.mit.Kerberos.CCacheServer[178]: launchctl start error: No such process
My server log says:
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(863)
init_oplocks: initializing messages.
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/process.c:process_smb(1077)
Transaction 0 of length 51
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/process.c:switch_message(927)
switch message SMBnegprot (pid 2508) conn 0x0
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/secctx.c:set_secctx(278)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - secctx_stackndx = 0
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(526)
Requested protocol [NT LM 0.12]
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/negprot.c:reply_nt1(385)
using SPNEGO
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(627)
Selected protocol NT LM 0.12
[2009/11/13 09:44:47, 3] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(133 7)
timeout_processing: End of file from client (client has disconnected).

Best practice - moving home directories

Hello all,
I was looking for insight on best practices for moving home directories.
I was thinking that using the migration tool would be best to move the directories and then using dsrazor to remap all of the home directories for our users.
We are running Netware 6.5 SP8. I have added a 2TB RAID 10 set to one of our servers which is where I am planning on moving all of the user directories.
Thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
Steve D.

Originally Posted by sjdimare
Moving data from one volume to another on the same server should not require migration, correct? I just want to make sure all of the trustee assignments stay in place.
I also will need to redo volume space restriction on new user templates and the migrated volumes.
First test went quite smoothly.
Steve D.
When you move data (using Windows explorer ect) across volumes the trustee rights drop off. If moving from NW to NW use Server Consilidation and Migration Tool. If moving from NW to OES Linux use miggui. The SCMT has a few other features like project planning and verification.

NFS and LDAP on different servers: Problems with location of home director

Dear Apple Experts.
We are using LDAP server for user authentification
and NFS server for home directories.
Both are decictaed servers on differnt machines.
on the NFS server there are directories
/home/urpi
for staff's home directories
and
/home/students
for student's home directories
both are mounted to the Mac minis in
/Users directory
so
/Users/urpi
contains home directories for staff
/Users/students
contains home directories for students
Authentification works well andpermission are set as needed
but OS X shows missing home directories for LDAP authentificated users
and terminal shows missing home directory
for me it is
/home/urpi/fodrek
I was tried to mount NFS to /home, but it is not allowed
Would I ask if there is any setting to add directories, where home directories are placed,please?
I look forward hearing form you.
Yours faithfully
Peter Fodrek

So none of these machines are Snow Leopard servers?
What exactly do you mean when you say you tried to mount the NFS share to home? Can you copy and paste the command and error?
It sounds as though you don't actually have the NFS shares mounted. Assuming this is so, you might want to investigate how the automount command works so that your MacMinis mount the NFS shares on boot.
If your NFS/LDAP server is an OS X 10.6 server, set the shares to be automounted as user/group directories. Make sure your LDAP server is providing correct information on the home directory location. If it is local, I think the home directories need to be in /Users. If your mounts are indeed working but you cannot login, you might consider making links from /Users to /home/urpi or /home/students on an account-by-account basis (could be done with a quick shell script).

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