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  • August 9, 2006 at 11:42 am #366780
    macguru42
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    Getting my head around SUS have been easy so far, there really isn’t much to it.

    But I am now confused.

    Two machine groups in OD.

    Group one points to SUS server one

    Group two points to SUS server two

    or so you would think.

    But… my Mac in group two refuses to listen to server two, unless I
    disable the pref setting in group one.

    This I do not understand.

    Also (while i’m here)

    Even though I have a PPC Mac with 10.4.6 on it, it does not see the 10.4.7 upgrade
    as being ‘available’ to it, even though it is enabled on my SUS.

    The list of updates on the SUS, start out with nice meaningful names, but then
    start to list the build? number / dir / of the patch with a 061-xxxx number.

    While I understand that they are updates, I’m slightly confused why we
    need to see both and wonder why I’m seeing these at all.

    TIA.

    mg.

    August 10, 2006 at 9:55 am #366784
    macguru42
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    ok, found why..

    the Mac in question had been added to both groups, thus the confusion about the setting.

    But I still can’t see why I’m seeing 6xx-xxxx as updates on my SUS

    August 10, 2006 at 12:56 pm #366789
    Anonymous
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    and.. much more bizzare is the plist value I see in

    ~/Library/Preferences/

    com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist

    3 key/value pairs
    WebiconDatabaseDirectoryDefaultsKey String ~/Library/Icons
    WebKitDefaultFontSize Number 11
    WebKitStandardFont String Lucida Grande

    August 18, 2006 at 9:49 pm #366850
    fherbert
    Participant

    Looking at my own ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist, it has the same values as the one you mentioned, so I don’t think that is an issue.

    You can try to manually see what updates your software update server is advertising by browsing to the page at : http://your.softwareupdate.server:8088/index.sucatalog

    Check this xml data for the update you are expecting your client to get. Also note that even though you may be setup to use the internal software update server, for some reason (maybe for security or whatever – maybe someone else could explain) the software update process still seems to connect to apple to see what updates it requires. So if you are blocking this somewhere on your network, this could be why your client is not “seeing” the 10.4.7 update.

    Hope this helps.

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