Several AFP automounts

Hi,
I have Leopard Server 10.5.8 and I share a NFS mount point (from another NFS server) as an AFP Users Home Directory (in automount properties).
This works fine when I ssh on a network client computer. But when I try to ssh another client computer while not closing the first one, I can login but can't write.
Is there any possibility to enable write on AFP automount from several clients in the same time (as NFS allows it).
Thanks a lot for ideas,
Joe

The filesystem mounted at /Network is actually a loopback nfs mount controlled by the automounter. Look in the process list for /usr/sbin/automount, there should be two automount processes, one for /Network and one for /automount/Servers.
It looks like the second one is getting wedged somehow. I'd look at the automount records in your OD database first. If you kill the automount process, then launchd should relaunch it.
What happens when a user with an afp homedir logs in is the following:
1) a request goes out for something in the user's home dir (probably a . file).
2) the request goes to the nfs mount owned by the automounter
3) the automounter checks to see if that volume is mounted in it's backing store (usually /private/Network/Servers) and if it isn't there, it mounts it using afp.
4) the request is redirected to the afp volume mounted on the backing store.
5) further requests follow the same path.
Hope this helps
- Leland

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    But I still see that the user that saw the long delay before logging in successfully has valid Kerberos tickets, as per the output of the "klist" command:
    mms:~ sh$ klist
    Kerberos 5 ticket cache: 'API:Initial default ccache'
    Default principal: [email protected]
    Valid Starting Expires Service Principal
    12/14/09 11:31:04 12/14/09 21:31:04 krbtgt/[email protected]
    renew until 12/15/09 11:30:33
    12/14/09 11:31:34 12/14/09 21:31:04 host/[email protected]
    renew until 12/15/09 11:30:33
    Which would imply that Kerberos is doing its job correctly?
    Any suggestions about what might be causing the delays I'm seeing and what I might do to correct the problem?

    I'm still struggling with this and drawing a blank searching for similar reports. Does anyone else see this problem? I'm beginning to suspect it might be something unique to my setup.
    To add a further piece of information, the home directory of the account which is slow to connect to is an afp mount and the first thing I see in the system log after the long delay is a line like the following:
    Feb 9 11:21:36 mms sshd[50749]: afp home directory mount succeeded
    A pwd run from this account shows:
    /Network/Servers/mms.marske.local/Users/sh
    and the mount command shows the following info:
    map -fstab on /Network/Servers (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
    I was thinking that maybe it was the afp automount that was taking so long except for two things.
    1) The disk is local to the server, and
    2) If I logout of this account an issue the command "ls /Network/Servers/mms.marske.local/Users/sh" from another account, the directory listing returns immediately.
    Any thoughts?

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