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  • #363746
    lancepr
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    Brief History
    Our school has about 100 OSX machines
    After months of trying to get them to work in AD I gave up and ordered an Xserver.
    We have 1 OSX server, that I want to use WGM to manage the Mac clients like I use group policy to do on the PCs
    Windows 2000 AD, DNS is fine (forward/reverse for all servers)
    I have home drives already setup for my users in AD.

    what I have done
    I followed the AD/OD Integration guide (very helpfull)
    Created an OD master
    Joined the server to the AD
    Now I want to use WMG to manage all of the Macs
    I joined one of the Macs to the OD, it was already part of the AD
    I tried to setup prefs for a user and the computer name but none of my settings are taking place when I log on, I do not get any errors.

    In WGM I authenticate to AD and the local 127.0.0.1
    created a group, added my test AD account and set some prefs
    Then I added a computer list, I used the name and it was able to reslove the MAC address, set different prefs.
    When I log on using that Mac and username none of prefs are getting applied.

    I am new to OSX, our PTA wanted us to be dual platform, where can I check logs to see why these prefs are not getting pushed down?

    Thanks
    Lance

    #363768
    Anonymous
    Guest

    I have got this working here now, Im just about to finish work for teh day, but I will post how I got it working tomorrow.

    #363869
    lancepr
    Participant

    Anyone else have this working? I called Apple tech support today and paid them money and they were of no help!
    I have had the SSO working, I just watnt to be able to use the WGM on my AD users when they login.
    I must be missing somethink simple.

    #364405
    Alphadog7
    Participant

    I have machine preferences working great, but no user prefs are working…

    Is this dependent on Kerberos or location of dir homes? Our students home are on a Windows server, but I have not set that up yet…

    #364417
    Alphadog7
    Participant

    Thanks for the info, I will try some things, and post the results…

    #365265
    schilled
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    [QUOTE BY= macshome]
    Unless you extend the AD schema, you need the OD domain to store the mcx in.

    If they are OD users then you should just be able to apply MCX to them.[/QUOTE]

    I am not sure what you meant when you said that the MCX needs to be store in? In what? Is this stored in the home directory? What if we plan on having local home directories but just management from OD? I set up groups in OD and added AD users and it wont’ pull the settings down. Any help would be great macshome.

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