Article:		Discover the Power of Open Directory
Subject:		Fast User Switching and Netboot
Date:		2007-06-04 08:09:47
From:		markmacmac
Have you ever set up Netboot and Enable Fast User switching on the clients? I've tried with Panther Server but my clients come up with an error, something about "can't find directory" or something like that. When I fully log out on the client and log back in with a different name, then it works, albeit without fast user switching. Any ideas?

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• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-25 14:47:03  tim1724 [View]
  
  
  if you want Fast User Switching, then you have to use NFS for home directories. FUS doesn't work with AFP or SMB homedirs.
  
  

• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 11:28:22  Jason Deraleau | [View]
  
  
  The problem has more to do with Network Home Folders. When you log into an account that has an NHF setup, the sharepoint from the server gets mounted as that user, specifically. If you then try to login as another user with an NHF on the same system, the second user account can't access the sharepoint from the server (it's already mounted by user one), so they get an error that the system can't access the user's home folder.
• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 14:00:20  markmacmac [View]
  
  
  Interesting. Thanks for the reply.

• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 08:12:11  markmacmac [View]
  
  
  to add to the previous, the clients are logging in via Open Directory.
• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 08:26:01  Noah Gift | [View]
  
  
  I have never used Fast User Switching on Panther in the combination you described. I have done this on Tiger and have never had a problem though.
• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 15:48:04  Noah Gift | [View]
  
  
  I guess I should clarify that I always use NFS, which behaves differently than AFP and SMB for network home directories.
  
  I personally like NFS as you can use it for Linux and Mac.
  
  You might try doing an su - to that same user your having problems with to see if you can log in from the command line and get a home directory. If you can that it would make it point to fast user switching.
• Fast User Switching and Netboot
  2007-06-04 19:04:45  markmacmac [View]
  
  
  Good information. I'll try playing around with that next week.
  
  Thanks again!