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I cannot get automounting of AFP Share points to work at all. Not surprisingly, since it seems almost impossible to get even basic SLS services working at all.
Is there anywhere a simple step-by-step to enable auto mounting of afp share points on server "my server" for user xyzzy?
There are many, many discussions on the subject all over this board. I (think) I have read them all and tried all the suggestions, including examining the detailed OD records in WGM.
What would be helpful for me is a simple:
1. Load WGM
2. Load SA and Share a drive like this:
     a. Select Volumes...do this...
     b. Select Share points...do this...
     c. Permissions...
     etc.....
Also, is there a magic incantation and/or ancient SNS ritual I need to perform? There is a local voodoo shop in my area and would gladly purchase required eye-of-lizard... etc...
Sam

Answer 1

Thank you Tony for the helpful reply.
Perhaps it is misplaced expectations with regard to what I would expect to see. The network/server I'm working with is in my own private sandbox, primarily so that I can learn how to manage an Apple server, but also to support my personal and business needs as well.
From the personal aspect here is how I would expect it to work:
My Aperture photo library resides on a share of my server. The sub-folder where it is saved in on a volume called Media. I have several shares located on that volume; Aperture, iTunes, etc...
When I log into my network from my MBP (10.6 client) and plug in my iPhone, invariably Aperture loads always asking to locate my Aperture Library. My goal would then be that as soon as I'm logged in, the folder would be mounted, and Aperture would always load with me having to connect to the drive.
So that's the context. I have only Macs, and I don't intend to have any WIndows boxes, but will have an CentOS installation to host an Oracle server.
I followed your advice exactly for a managed setting using WGM, with the exception that I did not add the shares to the Login Items of my local account, which, to my thinking, would defeat the purpose of having a managed share. My UN/PW for the local and networked users are identical, and I've already successfully bound my account to this computer, using my Network account creds.
The computer has other "test" users on it as well. I'm not using Authenticate Binding, so perhaps that's the issue, because it appears that there is only one binding per computer. I will try that next.
I do understand the difference between public/private DNS and c&p'd both changeip and dig outputs here:
ssh'd into server:
g:~ admin$ sudo changeip -checkhostname      
Primary address     = 10.0.1.6
Current HostName    = g.sp.net
DNS HostName        = g.sp.net
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
In Terminal on local:
g:~ admin$
Sam-MBP-2:~ sampaw$ dig g.sp.net
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> g.sp.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26510
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;g.sp.net.net.                    IN          A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
g.sp.net.net.          10800          IN          A          10.0.1.6
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sp.net.                    10800          IN          NS          g.sp.net.net.
;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.6#53(10.0.1.6)
;; WHEN: Mon Jul 11 15:09:12 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 69
Should dig 10.0.1.6 return g.sp.net? Seems like it has before, but is not now. (Answers: 0)
Anyway, the suggestion you gave did not work, perhaps because of the binding method or DNS really isn't working.
Thank you, again, Tony.