[TDR]

Hello all,

Im completely new to this Support Forum, so you might have to bear with me

I currently work in a large school district encompassing 9 Schools, and I am in charge of general Tech Support for 7 of them, all 7 of which are K - 6. At 3 of these schools, we are experiencing certain login issues that we here cannot seem to resolve.


Problem:

Clients have issues logging in after someone else logs out - just hangs after hititng "Log in" button & they have to reboot.


This following setup is consistant in each of the 3 schools affected. So this is occuring with 3 seperate labs & 3 seperate servers.

Lab: 24 Clients are eMacs - 10.4.7
older iMac Desktops throughout building running 10.2.8(~20+)

Server is 10.4.7
Server Runs:
- AFP
-Have Multiple AFP Directories
-One for each Class (4-6 Shares each school)
-One for general Faculty
-One for Professional Development (PD)
- DHCP
- DNS
- LDAP / OD
- Windows File Sharing

Spanning Tree is off on all Network Switches


What we think might be the problem:

Network traffic is probably congested
- 20-24 Lab Machines logging in at one time
- Console is showing that each Lab eMac is attempting to automount the other AFP shares we have setup for other students (GY 2013-2019), but not the Faculty AFP share. This is occurring consistently with multiple users & multiple machines

- Congestion might be cause of login problems

Most of what I am guessing is just educated speculation, and may be way off. The network congestion is my best guess as to what is going on, but ANY help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in Advance,

TDR
IT Technician

[TDR]

Hello again,

After much research, the rest of the IT staff and I have decided to swap to using Portible Home Directories. We believe that alot of the network traffic will be stopped that way.

I assume that someone has used Portible Home Directories in the past, so can anyone comment on your experiences with it, and how easy or hard it was to setup and configure?


Thanks again,

TDR
IT Technician

[Newman4185]

Hi all,
I was having the same problem on my friends computer and know little to nothing about MACs but I managed to fix it.
The way he was logining into the network was with a WEP password
we have a WEP HEX password, once we changed to that the bars came on and the error went away. Try to make sure your "Security" isnt on the wrong thing.