Home › Forums › OS X Server and Client Discussion › Questions and Answers › 10.5 Clients with 10.6 Server. Possible? My Setup’s not working. Help!

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • January 14, 2010 at 6:06 am #377816
    Larry767
    Participant

    I previously dabbled with 10.5 server with some 10.5 clients and found that the first time I opened Directory Utility on one of the clients it automatically found the server and offered to configure the client to use all the services like Time Machine, iChat, etc. (like this: [url]http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/masterclass/index.cfm?articleid=383&pagtype=allchandate[/url]).

    Then we bought a new Mac Mini Server that came with 10.6 server. I set it up fresh using this ([url]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10542543&#10542543[/url]) thread as a guideline. Now when I go to a freshly installed 10.5 client machine and fire up Directory Utility, it searches for a while, but does not find a server.

    What am I doing wrong?

    January 15, 2010 at 9:53 pm #377825
    bschappel
    Participant

    Is an OS X Server running the DHCP server process? The easiest way to make this work is to give your new Mini server a static IP and have it act as the DHCP server for your network. The client Macs find the OD server through DHCP. Your Mini server needs to either be the DHCP server or be bound to another Mac that is the DHCP server.

    January 15, 2010 at 10:19 pm #377826
    Larry767
    Participant

    [QUOTE][u]Quote by: bschappel[/u][p]Is an OS X Server running the DHCP server process? The easiest way to make this work is to give your new Mini server a static IP and have it act as the DHCP server for your network. The client Macs find the OD server through DHCP. Your Mini server needs to either be the DHCP server or be bound to another Mac that is the DHCP server.[/p][/QUOTE]

    DHCP service is NOT running on the server. The server and clients are connected to a DSL router which provides DHCP to the LAN. The server is assigned a static IP on the same subnet as the DHCP addresses. In other words, the router provides addresses starting at 192.168.0.100 and above. The server address is 192.168.0.99. I can mount the shared volumes on this server no problem – there is no network issue here as far as I can tell. When I open Directory Utility on a client machine (10.5.x) it scans for servers for several seconds but does not find one. Previously when I had the 10.5.x server version Directory Utility would find the server immediately and ask if it should configure the client apps to use the available services. I did try manually adding the server in Directory Utility by entering the IP address of the server and that seemed to work, no errors, but I do not see how to have it automatically configure the client to see and use the Time Machine service on the server for example.

    Thanks,

    Larry

    January 28, 2010 at 4:16 pm #377888
    bschappel
    Participant

    The only way that I know of to have the clients automatically find the OD Master is to have OS X provide DHCP. Apple has used some DHCP options that provide the name/address of the OD Master to DHCP clients.

    You can easily disable the DHCP server in your router and add the service to the OS X server.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Comments are closed

Copyright © 2025 AFP548. All Rights Reserved.