Hey all,
I ran into my first issue with running NFS home directories, interesting that it has just come up now. Please note that this has been working for over a month now without issue. The problem may have been caused by 10.3.1 update, but I can not decisively narrow it down to that (lot of interaction on these machines that I was not there for). Anyway, here's the issue:
Safari will not load any pages, short of it's home page. If you open safari, it will connect to and load the home page (i've tried 3 different uncached hp's). However, if you try to load any other web pages, it just sits there on "Connecting to
www.blah.com", and gets no further, no matter what page you go to next. I can ping the sites without issue, and I.E. browses without issue.
Also, mail.app hangs when accessing keychain (whenever you try to check mail, asks for keychain password, hangs.)
Now, if I delete the default keychain (which is login.keychain, it doesn't make username.keychain??), safari works for 3 or 4 pages then dies. Mail works until it attempts to save the password in keychain.
Now my question is this: Shouldn't safari work even without a keychain? Why is there a dependency there? Also, if I copy all of the data directly from the NFS home dir into a local dir, there is no issue, the user works fine with the same data.
The export has been setup to map root to nobody, but I've tried without this with no luck. Everything seems to be working fine except for this. I've tried just about everything I can think of, from creating a new User, to trying a known good keychain. Considering the big gotcha from NFS is parsed resource forks, I was expecting problems from this. it's ironic that this problem is with keychains, which don't have meta data.
All of these apps are being run from the local machine.
Interesting problem, any ideas?
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