[deviantflux]

The school that I work at has roughly 50 macs on OS X, with multiple users managed through Workgroup Manager. There is an OS X Server managing these users (using active directory? i am assuming). When logging into many of these networked accounts, login time takes a very long time, on the order of minutes usually. Local accounts as expected, login within 20 seconds. Adding to the complexity of the problem is that the login times vary among different computers(from 1-2 minutes to 15 minutes), even though all of the computers were restored from a common image, so they are all configured similarly.

I have attempted to flush the mcxcache periodically, repaired permissions on the clients and servers, but none of that has worked. I am at a loss as to what to do and how to approach this issue. While I could create local accounts, it wouldn't be too practical as the students' home directories are hosted on the server and want to manage their preferences using WGM.

Any help on this issue would be GREATLY appreciated.. thanks!

[larkost]

First off... it is not ActiveDirectory, that is Microsoft's product (which MacOS X can work with). This is Apple's Directory Service, and it is lumped in under the MacOS Server name... one of the main components is OpenDirectory, so lets call it that...

It sounds like you are having some sort of a network problem. You will want to check all the cabling on the computers that are having problems, and then see if there is something wrong with the DNS setups. This is a complex process, so there are lots of places where you have just not given enough information at this point to troubleshoot properly.

[Angus_D]

Actually, Open Directory is the new happy marketing name for Directory Services.