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[hetjan]

Is it possible to bind an InstaDMG image to AD beforehand?

[pteeter]

Best to use a launchdaemon or loginhook to establish the AD bind.

[thomasb]

Do the binding on the first boot instead, as pteeter suggests.

Have a look at Brian Hanson’s AD AutoBind solution: [url]http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=12126[/url]

One of the tricky things about AD binding using launchd, is making your script wait for Network/DNS before running. That problem is solved in a pretty neat way by Brian.

Using the following code in your launch daemon (plist)…
[code]KeepAlive

SuccessfulExit

[/code]
You can make your script exit 1, until your DNS is reachable (i.e. /usr/sbin/scutil -r DOMAIN), and launchd will restart the script until exit 0 🙂

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