brianleahy
Colonel Panic
I have a bizarre problem, and I am hoping someone here will be able to offer a suggestion, or at least, relate. I'm managing a small network of 5 Macs. One is running Panther Server, and it's providing AFS, Open Directory authentication, and network home folders for all the clients.
The client macs are: A G3 tower, a PowerBook G3, an iMac DV, and a PowerBook G4. All are running 10.3.3, all are connecting to the server via hard wired ethernet, with a 100baseT switch.
All the machines work virtually trouble-free - except the PowerBook G4. It alone refuses to do a login-time authentication against the server, about half of the time. Whenever authentication fails on this PowerBook, it fails for all network sign-ins. The correct user IDs and passwords always result in the 'head shaking' response from the login window. However, if I then attempt to log in using the same ID and password on any of the other Macs on the network, it works perfectly.
Furthermore, if I perform a stand-alone sign in on the PowerBook G4, I can then easily connect to the AFS drives on the server, using the same user IDs and passwords that failed to get me logged in just moments earlier. This, to me, suggests that I can rule out a problem with the physical network wiring serving the PowerBook G4.
Question for Open Dir gurus: does login-time authentication perform fewer "re tries" than post-login AFS authentication? If yes, then perhaps bad wiring could be the culprit.
I recently did a complete wipe/re install of 10.3.3 on the PowerBook G4, and then carefully applied the exact same Network and Directory Access settings used successfully on the other client machines. At first this seemed to have fixed the problem, but then, as I went about re installing all the application software, login-time authentication began to fail again.
Specifically, right after I had re installed Office vX it started to fail again, though ! this seems an unlikely culprit. All the machines on the network are r unning Office vX, but the PowerBook G4 is the only one having this problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The client macs are: A G3 tower, a PowerBook G3, an iMac DV, and a PowerBook G4. All are running 10.3.3, all are connecting to the server via hard wired ethernet, with a 100baseT switch.
All the machines work virtually trouble-free - except the PowerBook G4. It alone refuses to do a login-time authentication against the server, about half of the time. Whenever authentication fails on this PowerBook, it fails for all network sign-ins. The correct user IDs and passwords always result in the 'head shaking' response from the login window. However, if I then attempt to log in using the same ID and password on any of the other Macs on the network, it works perfectly.
Furthermore, if I perform a stand-alone sign in on the PowerBook G4, I can then easily connect to the AFS drives on the server, using the same user IDs and passwords that failed to get me logged in just moments earlier. This, to me, suggests that I can rule out a problem with the physical network wiring serving the PowerBook G4.
Question for Open Dir gurus: does login-time authentication perform fewer "re tries" than post-login AFS authentication? If yes, then perhaps bad wiring could be the culprit.
I recently did a complete wipe/re install of 10.3.3 on the PowerBook G4, and then carefully applied the exact same Network and Directory Access settings used successfully on the other client machines. At first this seemed to have fixed the problem, but then, as I went about re installing all the application software, login-time authentication began to fail again.
Specifically, right after I had re installed Office vX it started to fail again, though ! this seems an unlikely culprit. All the machines on the network are r unning Office vX, but the PowerBook G4 is the only one having this problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?