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Hi, I'm panicing 
I've setup my server (running Mac OS X Server 10.2.8) with networked user home directories. Everything *seems* to be working fine, but the client computers do not write anything back to the server, all data is kept in
/private/var/automount/Network/Server/server.intranet.name/Users/username
On the server side, in Workgroup Manager, the settings are as follows:
User's (my user account) home directory:
The sharepoint:
Sharepoint's automount options:
All NFS services (portmap, nfsd, mountd) are running.
Please! anyone, help me. I fear I'll lose all my data if/when I update to Panther, and if I want to keep something BIG in my homedir, the space is reserved from my boot drive, not from the server disk. And I (or anyone else, for that matter) can't access my data but from the one computer that it's written on, this defeats the whole purpose of the networked home directory.
If the images ain't working, please tell me. (But in that case, they should be available from http://www.nitesade.net/networkedhome/ )
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If I switch over to AFP, then _that_ works, but there comes another problem.
I hope I don't break any secrets or anything, but it's common knowledge that Panther will support multiple GUI logins. But that doesn't work with AFP home directories. If home directories are mounted via NFS, many users can log into one computer at the same time, but if I use AFP, the second user (and everybody after that) only gets an error dialog saying something along the lines:
You cannot log on as "User Name" at this time. Home directory is on AFP or SMB server, please contact your system administrator.
And then returned to the Login Window. So I would very much like to use the NFS option, but. That really doesn't work. I wonder no one else has bumped into this thing? Do I need to do anything else on the client-side, than to tell Directory Access to look for Netinfo server at the server's IP.
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How are the home shares configured via NFS tab? Are they exported to the world, to individual machines, to 127.0.0.1, or to users?
What about DNS running on the server or on your network to do reverse lookups for incoming connections? Are there multiple servers on your network such as a centralied OP2 server and remote file server based share points or is the whole server one big open directory?
How are open directory services configured? Stand alone or master?
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