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OS X Server: Delete unused Share Points for Home directory?
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Clinically Insane
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Nov 21, 2008, 11:00 AM
 
How do I delete unused Share Points in the Workgroup Manger for Home folders in 10.5.5?

I imported my LDAP configuration and along with it were the users' home folder settings. The problem is that under 10.5.5, the users' home folders wouldn't mount. It'd only show the parent directory with all the user folders in it (though they could only access their own.)

I also found out that Workgroup Manager refused to create a new home directory if I made a new user.

So I backed up the user data, reformatted the drive (just incase it was a permissions problem), recreated the shared folder with the same name for the home directory and it refused to make the home directories at all.

So I made a differently named shared directory... and it worked.

However, inside Workgroup Manager it still lists the AFP share of the old shared directory even though it's NOT shared. These ghost shares are forcing me to recreate all the home directories under new names that don't fit our naming scheme as even newly created shared directories with the same name as the old share point don't work.

Server Admin doesn't show it as a shared, but Workgroup Manager does. There are 3 or 4 of these "ghost shares" in Workgroup Manager, and it won't let me delete them from the list of available share points for home directories.

I want to delete them so I can re-add them correctly through Server Admin, then creating home folders through Workgroup Manager.

shares -l only lists what I have in Server Admin.

The shares I have.


Some ghost shares I can't remove that are causing problems.


I want to remove the following, but the - symbol is grayed out:

2009
2010
Classes
Faculty
Newspaper
TEST
ZZTEST
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Nov 21, 2008, 11:41 AM
 
Turn on the "All Records" tab and manually delete the LDAP entries under Mounts.
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Nov 21, 2008, 01:07 PM
 
I've in inherited this job and I don't know OS X Server too well. Where do I go about doing that?

Edit: Found it in the preferences.

Edit: YES! Thank you!
(Last edited by olePigeon; Nov 21, 2008 at 01:16 PM. )
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Nov 21, 2008, 01:11 PM
 
Sorry. Workgroup Manager under prefs. You will then have a new tab next to the users, computers, groups tabs.
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Nov 21, 2008, 01:17 PM
 
Ah yes, it is readily apparent how it got messed up.

Our old server was EganServer.egan
The new server is eganserver.egan

The caps in E and S seems to have caused the confusion.

The ghost share points were pointing to EganServer instead of eganserver
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