Binding into WM container

[Twerpin]

Hi,

I administer a small lab of iMac’s.  The AD server to which I bind is on a different subnet. Our network is part of a larger network.  I am putting together a method for imaging and maintaining the machines.  Because the machines are managed clients, they inherit all the preferences from the rules set on the WM container.  Currently, when I re-image the machines and rebind them, I have to manually drag them into the correct container in Workgroup Manager.  I am using dsconfigad to bind the machines, but I haven’t figured out a way to put them into the correct container.  Is there another tool I can use that can achieve this?  Here is the basic framework of what I would like to do in the imaging process, unbinding and binding to AD as well as imaging.. Some bash is included.

-All computers are running on ‘Hard Drive’ partition
-Backup ‘preferences.plist’
-Unbind from AD domain & boot to ‘/Volumes/Tech’

dsconfigad -remove -f -u [username] -p [password]
bless -mount /Volumes/Tech -setBoot -nextonly
shutdown -r now

-Restore ‘Hard Drive’ & bless it

asr restore –source asr://wherever.i.run.the.server –target ‘/Volumes/Hard Drive’ –erase –noprompt –noverify –puppetstrings
-Retore preferences backed up.

And for sourcing the image:

asr -source [path to image] -server [path to configuration plist]

Rebinding to AD:

(parameters are set)

# Bind to AD (but is there a way to bind to correct container?)
dsconfigad -f -a $computerid -domain $domain -u $udn -p “$password” -ou “$ou”

# Restart DirectoryService
killall DirectoryService

# Add the AD node to the search path
if [ “$alldomains” = “enable” ]; then
csp=”/Active Directory/All Domains”
else
csp=”/Active Directory/$domain”
fi

[Goldberg]

We have this code in our bind script:

# Add Mac to the standard mac prefs computerlist
echo “Adding Mac the the standard mac prefs computerlist in WGM”

computername=`/usr/sbin/scutil –get LocalHostName`

/usr/bin/dscl -u $userid -p ‘/Active Directory/DOMAIN/All Domains’ -merge “/ComputerLists/standard mac prefs” apple-computers “$computername”

The $userid is the account used to bind to AD.

Hope that you,

Goldberg

• This reply was modified 11 years, 8 months ago by Goldberg.

[Twerpin]

Interesting.  Yes, it is a computer list that I’m trying to join.  I do have a question about your script since I’m not wholly familar with dscl.

 

“/ComputerLists/standard mac prefs” apple-computers “$computername”

 

So ‘standard mac prefs’ is the name of the ComputerList right?  Also, what is the ‘apple-computers’ part?

 

Thank you so much. This looks like exactly what I needed.

[Twerpin]

I didn’t read thoroughly, my mistake about the computerlist name question. However, what does the “apple-computers” part relate to as part of the dscl syntax?

 

[Goldberg]

I’m not 100% sure about apple-computers part however do know 2 things:
1. It doesn’t work without it.
2. apple-computers is a objectClasses that is part of the Apple AD extended schema so it’s related to that.

Goldberg
@gmarnin

• This reply was modified 11 years, 8 months ago by Goldberg.

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