Lack Permission to access Network Home Directory

I upgraded OSX 10.4.8 Server to 10.4.9. I also updated the client computers to the same. The server is a Master LDAP directory which houses the users home directories. Since the upgrade when a user tried to login to their home directory they receive a dialog telling them they do not have the permissions to access the directory. They can go to any other machine in the shop and login with no problem. I have found two ways to remedy this. If we shut the affected computer down and pull the plug, when it is restarted they can login. This seems to work 80% of the time. The second remedy has been to remove the apple preferences on the client from "/Library/Preferences", "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration", and "/Library/ Preferences/DirectoryService". Restart the machine, re-enter all of the required info, and we are off and running again. I have not been able to pin this down to a single file. I had one user that I have hit this problem with that nothing has worked.
Before upgrading the server I backed up 10.4.8 to another internal drive. I have since returned to running off of 10.4.8 but the problem has not gone away. I have checked and double checked permissions on home directories and do not see anything wrong.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rich
Powerbook 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Changing the schema password is not the same as changing the password for the portal30 user logging on through the browser. If you wanted to change the schema password, then you also need to update the password in the DAD configuration file, which is in $IAS_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cfg/wdbsvr.app. Update the password entry for the corresponding data access descriptor (DAD).
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--Gerrit

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There does not seem to be any precipitating event that leads to this change in her permissions/access privileges.
Repairing permissions using Disk Utility does not resolve the problem.
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When I log in to this same computer using my account (also with admin privileges), I have yet to encounter this eventual-permission-denial problem.
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PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
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/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
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I have a solution!
Note: this is a new post because all previous posts dealing with this topic have been archived, MANY without an answer.
Problem:
Users with Network Home directories can't log in. After entering their correct username and password, the following error message appears:
"You are unable to login to the user account 'username' at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."
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_Significant Troubleshooting Symptom:_
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authorizationhost[509] ERROR | -[HomeDirMounter
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_Computing/Network Environment:_
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Uncheck/disable Guest Access (as set in step 12 page 118) for the v10.4 Leopard server only. Leave "Share this item using AFP" checked. Uncheck "Allow AFP guest access."
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I have with great pain setup a OS X Lion server on a Mac Mini that was supposed to be my central server to have 4 network users accounts and all the users data is stored on an external disk array with mounted network homes to the 2 iMacs and 2 Macbooks I have in my home.
I have gotten it all working and all my Macs are joined to the Open Directory and each User can login as a network users on any of the Macs and get their files via mounted home directory from the server. The home directories on the server are backed up with Time Machine.
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If i can't resolve this I'll go back to have network users with local home directories on each Mac and just setup for each user a network share to which they copy files if they want them available on other Macs. Not as nice but at least it works!
As a said note I did this to make things easier but it has up to now cost me trouble then i had before!

Haven't heard anything from anybody so probably to daunting a topic ...
I have now moved on to try Portable Home Directories (PHD) and syncing ... what a disaster!
First it took me ages to get this right as the way the home directores are mounted on the clients from the server it's just weired which has to do with how AFP mounts are implemented. Since one AFP mount can't be mounted by several users on the same system they use a workaround of mounting it to a temp directory and then linking it back to where it should be. Of course this causes major problems.
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On other accounts it correctly synced all the data down, or so I thought. Apparently a few sync session back and forth and 50-60% of the data was gone. On further investigation it turned out to be iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Turns out does don't sync probably via Home Sync!!!
Apple product is not able to probably syncing Apple specific library files!!!!
So here my warning to everybody: DO NOT USE PHD and HOME SYNC to sync your data as you will lose stuff if you have iTunes and/or iPhoto libraries with Lion OS X Server!!!
The whole Lion Server experience has been a disaster for me. Now I have a server that does file sharing and time machine backup sharing. I can do the same thing with a standard Mac using those services. What's the point of Lion Sever for Home if nothing works proberly?

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