10.6 users can't log in to Snow Leopard Server

Same thing here although I upgraded verses clean install. Seems to be random. Password Service log shows authentication succeeded but still does not log them in to network homes. Restarting the server will allow those who can't login to then be able to, but then others will not be able to. Cannot connect directly to shares either with username and password in finder of another computer. Get connection failed message. Often shutting client workstation down and then restarting will allow them to log in, but not always. Very strange behavior.

I am having the same exact problem and I can not figure it out for the life of me. PLEASE HELP. I need to implement this in 2 weeks at me job. Thanks!

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Have you verified all your DNS settings?

yes, DNS seems to be fine. I can log in fine with 10.5 clients. But not 10.6 clients?

Well, not to belabor the point...
If you haven't already - run 'sudo changeip -checkhostname' on the server.

How did you bind the 10.6 clients?

What are the clients using for DNS servers?

If all that is properly set, take a look at the logs for clues.

Jeff

Same problem. There may be a Kerberos problem. I found when forcing authentication to be Kerberos in the Server Admin -> AFP -> Access panel setting Authentication to Kerberos makes all log ins fail, even on 10.5 machines. This seems to be an AFP/Kerberos interaction problem on 10.6.

I am having the same issue (see my other post here http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11102515#11102515).

Tomorrow I will try to remove all Kerberos and SSL in any type of authentication. I hope this will work!
There are a lot of people reporting these errors.
I wonder if ANYONE has this working correctly.
If they do, I wish that they would just take the time to post a note that they have it working. At least if would let me know this it is possible.
Does anyone know someone or some organization that has this working? Let me know!
Thanks everyone 🙂

I am an idiot 🙂
I'm almost ashamed to say that I found out what was keeping my other accounts from logging in.
On this particular Mac OS X client, during testing, I had set the setting System Preferences>Accounts>Login Options>Allow network users to log in at login window>Options>Only these network users: testuser1

Wow!

At least everything is working now 🙂

I accidentally made the same change to my mac, and now I can't login at all. How did you resolve this?

To clarify:

I had set the setting System Preferences>Accounts>Login Options>Allow network users to log in at login window>Options>Only these network users:

But I did not enter any users. Before I could, my machine crashed, and upon booting back up, I am no longer able to log in with any accounts, even the admin account.

I resolved this by logging into the workstation using the local admin account and changed the LOGIN OPTIONS setting mentioned above. Certainly you still have a local admin account still on your machine that you could use. Even if you don't know the password, you can reset the admin password using a Mac OS X install disc or one of the methods here

For my two cents worth,.. I'm seeing exactly the same problem.

If any of you guys/gals have solved this one, please post a summary here 🙂

In case it helps,
besides the similar behavior, as posted by Robert (msg: 'logging in to the account failed because of an error'), I can add the following observation:

If I am logged into a client machine as administrator, and I open a terminal window,
and then do:> +ssh localhost -l snoopy+
I do get asked the password
I am successfully logged in, but with no home directory
I read the error message:

+Could not chdir to home directory /Network/Servers/cbserver1.heidihills.ch/Volumes/group1/users/snoopy: No such file or directory+


On that client machine, in the syslog, I read the following:

+edu.mit.Kerberos.CCacheServer[13178]: launchctl start error: No such process+
+sshd[13341]: afp home directory mount failed in theEnumerator->Mount in AFP_Mount: status = Unknown error: -5000+
+edu.mit.Kerberos.CCacheServer[13178]: launchctl start error: No such process+


and on the AFP server where the home directories lie... I read, in the AFP access logs:

+128.178.107.77 Login snoopy 0 0 0+
+128.178.107.77 Logout snoopy 0 0 0+

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My problem has gone away... for the moment.

This may have been provoked by the fact that I completely erased the local (to the client mac) user folder /Users/snoopy and removed the account from the local client. The next time I tried logging, the portable home directory process proceeded as expected.

This is still causing me grief with a double-mount on server2 (see this thread: http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11480976&#11480976 ) but at least my users can now log in no problem... on the clients.. so this problem is solved.

cheers,
shawn

@ Robert:
My problem, like yours, seems to have been solved. Have a look over here:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11670889&tstart=0

shawn

I have checked all settings per the issues with the comments from above. Everything looks fine. I just cannot log into the network from a client machine. I type the user name and password, but it acts as if the password is incorrect which it is not. All machines are current with 10.6.4. I am new to Apple servers so I would not begin to know what log to check to give me a hint as to what might be going on.

I removed one client from the network with the log in options and the client and network saw each other and looked like they were successfully bound. However, I get the same login issue. Am I just doing something wrong or is this an issue with 10.6.4? It was working before with older versions of 10.6

Please help....

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