Problem accessing user dirs when Network Home in use

[wozto1s]

Hi,

I've been pulling my hair out with this for a while now, I'm a fairly seasoned Apache user on various platforms so no newbie to apache config, permissions, etc.etc.

Basically, I have two macs that I use mainly on my network plus a Mac OS X Server that I use for my Network Homes and the problem appears to be that I am unable to access the Sites folder that is part of the Network Home for a user that is stored on the Mac OS X Server, specifically doing something like http://localhost/~username gives Access Forbidden! Error 403.

I've tried all manor of config options in httpd.conf and http-userdir.conf including putting the Directory entry to the mounted path (i.e. /Network/Servers/host.domain/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Homes/username) and various options on FollowSymLinks but still get the 403 error.

I've also tried chmod'ing the files/folders to allow read/write/execute to all and still the same error.

One of the two machines is a macbook with a Mobile Account of the relevant username with the Sites folder sync'd, which works fine, so has to be something around the mounted Home folder somewhere.

Anybody offer any suggestions ??????

Cheers

Mark