Display Login Window doesn't show List of Users!

[MickeyS]

I work in an Elementary School with a server running OS X 10.3.9. The client computers log in fine to the server, I have the login window set up to Display name and password because if I use Display List of Users, I only see two icons, "admin" and "others", I don't see a list of my users. This would be beneficial if I could get the list of users since the lower grade kids can't type their names so quickly. Are there any preferences or any files that I should trash or any settings at the server level I should turn on so that I can get this to work properly? I would be a great help in my school lab.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Are these local user accounts, or network user accounts? As far as I know, the "list" view of accounts is only for accounts local to the machine.

[MickeyS]

Hi,
These acccounts are "network" accounts, created using WorkGroup Manager. I tried deleting the loginwindow.plist files and some others but it didn't work. I also did an "archive" install with no luck. Someone mentioned on the Apple forum to reformat the drive and start from the beginning, but that's out of the question at this time. There has to be a way to get the network users to show in the login window. Thanks.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Hmmm... in "Directory Access" (/Applications/Utilities), under "Authentication", is your Directory Domain listed there, or does it only say "/NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode"?

[MickeyS]

Yeap, It shows, now, the netinfo directory is still there...Is that supposed to be there too, although I am using LDAPv3? I took a laptop from the wireless lab connected to one server and configured it connect to the wired lab server and when I switched to show user names, it came up with old users from the old netinfo database. Kind of odd..It seems to me that this is sort of a local issue with the cklient machines.

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by MickeyS

Yeap, It shows, now, the netinfo directory is still there...Is that supposed to be there too, although I am using LDAPv3? I took a laptop from the wireless lab connected to one server and configured it connect to the wired lab server and when I switched to show user names, it came up with old users from the old netinfo database. Kind of odd..It seems to me that this is sort of a local issue with the cklient machines.

As far as i now you mix users this way. You can have users active from different servers (my mailserver hooks up to the file server for users and to its own local ldap users).

I guess if you could remove the local entry, then the locally defined system admin could not log in and i guess that is a problem hwne for some reason you can not access the network.


Good luck, Kees