Thanks, Karl, for responding, Am 23.09.2013 um 20:26 schrieb Karl Kuehn <[email protected]>:
> On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Axel Rau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a 10.6.8 OSX server which uses OD with strong binding of the clients >> (most 10.8.5). >> User homes are served via nfs (with Kerberos authentication) from this >> server. >> Occasionally, the login completes before the nfs mount has completed, which >> trashes dock and finder preferences permanently. >> How can I make sure, loginwindow waits until mount is complete? >> There is one client, which produces this log entry on the server if it >> happens: >> --- >> userInit[2482:907] CFPreferences: user home directory at >> file://localhost/Network/Servers/zeus.do.main/Exports/Users/fred/ is >> unavailable. User domains will be volatile. >> --- >> This user has no managed preferences and the client computer has only a >> login message text. > > I don't have an easy solution for you. But when I ran into a similar > problem with AFS (not Apple's AFP, but the only formerly called "Andrew File > System"), I wound up having to write a AuthPlugin that I put after the user > had done most of the authentication that waited for the AFS system to be > ready to serve up content. It might work to do that for you. You are going to > have to do some work on it if you go this route, since this is older code, > but I did open-source it at: > > http://code.google.com/p/loginwindowtools/ > I have already a loginhook running, but it fails occasionally. It's a shell script, which simply checks for network user and loops (with a sleep 1) until ~/Library/Preferences appears. Understanding the Launch-Architecture right, I would say, I need a WorkingDirectory parameter with an argument of a directory in the users home in com.apple.{Finder|Dock}.plist If I'm right, this would delay Finder and Dock until that directory appears. Any comments? Axel --- PGP-Key:29E99DD6 ☀ +49 151 2300 9283 ☀ computing @ chaos claudius _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
