10.3 server user login problems

[Michael Bartosh]

At 7:58 AM +0100 3/15/04, Thomas von Hassel wrote:
>On 15/3-2004, at 0.30, Michael Bartosh wrote:
>
>>At 11:33 PM +0100 3/14/04, Thomas von Hassel wrote:
>>>I have a 10.3 server, set as an Open Directory master, i've set 
>>>DHCP to set LDAP pref. to the clients .. but somehow the clients 
>>>do not ask the OD server at all, only local authentication. I have 
>>>the clients set up to Automatic in Directory Acces, i can se they 
>>>get the ldap info via dhcp, i have the same search path set in OD 
>>>and in the DHCP on the server .. what am i missing ?
>>>
>>
>>
>>First make sure the client is getting the option:
>>
>>ipconfig getpacket en0
>>
>>(or en1 or whatever interface you're using)
>>
>>then make sure that DirectoryService is getting  / using the node:
>>
>>mab9718:~ mbartosh$ dscl localhost
>>/ > ls LDAPv3/
>>gs.4am-media.com
>>/ > ls /LDAPv3/gs.4am-media.com/
>>ls: Invalid Path
>>/ >
>
>
>this is where i fail :
>
>dscl localhost
>/ > ls LDAPv3/
>intranet1.xxx.dk
>/ > ls /LDAPv3/intranet1.xxx.dk/
>ls: Invalid Path
>/ >
>
>what could be the problem then ?
>


tail -f /var/log/system.log

then try dscl

if that's not verbose enough, sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService, 
then watch syslog, while trying dscl. While this is going on, run 
your server in debug mode:

sudo killall slapd
sudo /usr/libexec/slapd -d 99