Directory Utility, setup with server without becoming Managed?

[v8media]

I’ve got a small office that we’re putting in a 10.5 server. I can’t get set up with the server without becoming a Managed user on my laptop (on which I am admin). Using another admin user on my laptop, I can make my user a non-managed user again, but that breaks the services (mail, ical . . . ) that I am needing to test and use once everything is working. The account on the server is not an admin as I want to be able to see what the other client machines see.

I’ve tried this with another account on my machine and it works fine, so it would appear that some of my initial testing has settings that are hanging around. Which files or settings do I need to delete or change on my machine, or how do I go in and set myself up with the server differently? It seems that I could do a reinstall without keeping the user info since my other user works fine, but I’d like to know the right way to fix this in case it happens to one of the clients further down the road.

Thanks for any info you might have, Ian

p.s. – Please ask if something isn’t clear.

[luke]

I don’t completely understand your issue, but it sounds very similar to mine.

I have a network of Leopard clients bound to an OD server, and they are able to access Directory.app and iCal Server as expected. I have my personal Leopard Laptop which is completely stand-alone. I would like to have some access to the directory from it though Directory.app and iCal Server, but I don’t want to have all of the users, groups, automounts, etc. that come with adding the OD server to the search policy in Directory Utility.app.

I had some limited success by creating a custom LDAP mapping in Directory Utility.app. Go to Services, LDAPv3, select your server, click Edit, Search & Mappings. Then start to delete record types and attributes. It should be possible to prune away everything except what is needed for Directory.app, iCal Server, Address Book.app, etc.

There has got to be a better way to do this though, and I expect I have a gap in my understanding.

[luke]

And that, MacTroll, was the aforementioned gap in my understanding. Thank you.

I put the mappings back to normal, pressed Apply, then changed the search policy so that Contacts contains LDAP but Authentication does not.

By “Authentication,” do they also mean things like automounts and MCX? I really don’t want that on my standalone laptop.

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