LDAP and Mobile Accounts

I'm seeing the same problem. It worked fine after an upgrade from 10.4 (tho Leopards peformance was awful).

I did a fresh install and now the option to create a mobile account is always grayed out.

I'm using OpenLDAP on Debian Sarge.

Yep - on the good side, it looks like they've done a lot of work on the directory stuff in general.

Okay - done some digging and it appears that you can force leopard to create mobile accounts from the command line.

Open a Terminal
su to root (sudo su -) as an admin user

Run the command:

/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/Resources/createmobileac count -vsn myusername /my/homedirectory

where myusername and /my/homedirectory are appropriate to your account.

Good luck!

Taken from this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5894362&tstart=0

Additinally - if you don't want homeSync enabled:

/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/Resources/createmobileac count -vSn myusername /my/homedirectory

(note the upper-case "S")

I had this problem too and tried the fix above successfully. However, upon further mucking around, I also came across another way to accomplish the same task at least with Active Directory.

Open Directory Utility and Show Advanced Settings. Go to Services, highlight Active Directory and click the pencil to edit settings. Show Advanced Options, then check the box to "Create mobile account at login."

I tried both methods and both work fine. The only caveat I've found is that Settings button for Mobile Accounts in System Prefs is still greyed out. Go figure.

I did a clean install and bound my Macbook to a Windows 2003 domain.

Nice job!

Unfortunatley, there's no such option for LDAPv3 on the GUI.

Excellent! Thank you very much!

Im running 10.4.11 and i dont see
/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app
anywhere
how else do i reset it?

Leopard and Tiger aren't the same here. Go ask on the Tiger forums 😉