Mac-e-doo

No major update today.  Just a photo of the new Mac suite at EHS...  Well..  We already had the iMacs, we've just moved them to another room.  Intergration with Active Directory is much more reliable now thanks to a few little tweaks which I have learnt.  I hate to say it, but I'm quite pleased with how the room has turned out.

I will add this however (mainly so that I don't forget).  One of the problems we had was when AD users tried logging on to an iMac that had been on for a few hours.  They would recieve the message "You are unable to log in to the user account "username" at this time” on Mac OS 10.5 and above.  A simple restart of the computer would fix it, and the user would then log on successfully.

Not exactly a great solution.

A bit of investigating has told me that this problem can happen if several AD users have home directories on different shares of the same server.

The solution?

Edit the auto_master file!  Of course, how obvious!!!!!!!!

Open Terminal (via Utilities) and do the following :-

• Type       sudo nano /etc/auto_master
• Comment out the line Network/Servers (insert # symbol at start of line – hold down ALT + 3)
• Press CTRL and X to exit.
• You will be asked to save.  Press Y for yes, and press Enter.  Leave file name as it is and press Enter
• Exit

Your auto_master file should look like this (or something like it)

# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master  # Use directory service
/net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home auto_home -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
#/Network/Servers -fstab
/-  -static

And there you go.  Right, I'm off to bed now because I have had a shite day!  Roll on tomorrow.