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  • July 28, 2003 at 11:00 am #356181
    Anonymous
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    Is it possible to set up networked users without having OS X server?

    From Directory Access Help:

    Shared domains generally reside on Mac OS X Servers because servers are equipped with the tools, such as Workgroup Manager and Server Settings, that facilitate managing network resources and network users.

    This seems to suggest it can be done, but I can find no help on how to do it.

    thanks in advance

    September 4, 2003 at 2:18 pm #356359
    db
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    man-page for nidomain wrote:

    The nidomain utility will allow one to create multiple
    levels of NetInfo hierarchy, but it is not a particularly
    easy way to do it. One should use the NetInfo Manager
    application for setting up multilevel hierarchies.

    Any HOWTO:s for setting up a Netinfo hierarchy with _Netinfo Manager_ on a Mac OS X client-box?

    September 5, 2003 at 10:30 pm #356371
    Cabbage
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    It’s out there somewhere. I remember reading it.

    September 10, 2003 at 8:10 pm #356391
    db
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    Cabbage wrote:

    It’s out there somewhere. I remember reading it.

    Is it possible for you to be a little more specific?

    Thanks

    September 12, 2003 at 6:34 pm #356406
    Cabbage
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    Not really. I know I have seen it somewhere. Try googling. It walked you thru how to setup a “network” domain in NetInfo on the OS X client. And then you just had to setup Directory Access like you normally do with OS X Server and it worked.

    September 15, 2003 at 12:15 pm #356416
    db
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    Cabbage wrote:

    Not really. I know I have seen it somewhere. Try googling. It walked you thru how to setup a “network” domain in NetInfo on the OS X client. And then you just had to setup Directory Access like you normally do with OS X Server and it worked.

    Thanks. I believe I can find the way myself now when you gave me some keywords, I had been searching for “distributed netinfo domains” etc, so just knowing the terminology makes it probably easier to find what I look for.

    I have also found this link

    http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/NeXTStep/3.3/nsa/

    which looks promising.

    September 15, 2003 at 7:02 pm #356419
    Cabbage
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    Here i found a couple things that might help

    maybe this was it
    http://is.rice.edu/~lanceo/netinfo/netinfo.html

    this will probably help a little
    http://deaddog.duch.udel.edu/~frey/darwin/ncutil.html/

    Get OSX User Utils 1.3 FIX at
    http://www.osxgnu.org/
    This will allow you to add users and groups from the command line, and delete them to with less commands than the built in tools that apple gives you.

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