"Make available for home directories" greyed out

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rhyb Author

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"Make available for home directories" greyed out

Hi all,

We have two new Mac Mini servers with RAID units to replace our previous XServe's.

They are running 10.8.2, and server 2.2.1.

Both servers happily bind to our existing 10.6.8 XServe OD master.

Some months ago, I successfully ticked "Make available for home directories" on one of the Mac Mini's, and since then have had hundreds of LDAP users happily logging into their profile stored on the Mac Mini.

However when it came time to set this up for our second Mac Mini, the option was greyed out. We've tried a whole range of things - restarting servers, rebinding (both anon and authenticated), trying other shares. To make matters worse, if I UNtick the option on the first Mac Mini, it is greyed out and I can't tick it again (so I click 'cancel' to avoid catastrophy!) - and any other shares available on that server also have the option greyed out.

This suggests a software update may have caused the problem. We suspect the upgrade of Server to version 2.2. However we know that it works for the first Mac Mini, so in theory it should work for the 2nd one too, if only the option was available.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated,

Thanks

Mac mini, OS X Server

Posted on Feb 17, 2013 4:41 PM

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Answer 1

sibr

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Feb 18, 2013 10:15 AM in response to rhyb

This is a tertiary issue for us, so I haven't looked into it closely myself, but I do know others have been having issues, usually creating invididual accounts. Try searching forums for the createhomedir command -- that may pull up some related posts.

Simon.

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rhyb Author

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Feb 20, 2013 5:16 PM in response to sibr

Thanks sibr, but I can't really find any relevant information. All this relates to creating a home folder after the share has already been established as a home-directory mount.

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rhyb Author

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Mar 5, 2013 7:43 PM in response to rhyb

I've called Apple Support, and their official answer is this: I need to setup the servers as open directory replicas. I can only do this if the OD master is running Mountain Lion, which it is not. They could not answer me as to why the first server had no problem mounting with just a binding to the OD Master instead of being a replica, but the 2nd server (and now the 1st server also) cannot.

Is there a terminal option for setting up a home directory mount?

Thanks,

Rhys

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