Is it possible to switch a managed, mobile account to a network account?

[Anonymous]

We are upgrading our Mac’s from Panther to Tiger, and several of our Panther machines (desktop iMac G4 and G5’s) are set to cache login credentials locally, i.e.-they show up as being Managed, Mobile accounts in System Pref->Accounts. These PC’s are stationary and never leave the users desks. When I do an upgrade to Tiger, and log in as the individual, then log back out and log in again, I get to choose between two different accounts with the same name. The one turns out to be the old mobile account previously created in Panther, and the other appears to be a brand new network account. So I am looking for a way to either switch the managed, mobile account to network before upgrading, OR finding a way to get rid of the newly created network account after the upgrade so users don’t have the option to choose between the two. Any advice you could offer, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!
John

[Anonymous]

Is there an easy way to go about doing that? I’m not too familiar with command line, but am trying to become moreso.

Thanks!
John

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[QUOTE BY= John G] Is there an easy way to go about doing that? I’m not too familiar with command line, but am trying to become moreso.

Thanks!
John[/QUOTE]

You can print out the manual for dscl from Terminal with:

man dscl | col -b | lp

[Anonymous]

Okay sorry for the delay. I went into dscl and into Active directory -> domain -> users, but when I am logged in on this laptop I use my mobile account, so it doesn’t appear to show up in there. Should I log in as the new network account that was created when I upgraded to Tiger (which I haven’t used at all, but I know when I log into it as the network account, it has a completely different profile, yet the two accounts seem to share a single account on the machine as far as System Preferences and Netinfo Manager show) and do the dscl after that?

Thanks guys,
John

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[QUOTE BY= John G] Okay sorry for the delay. I went into dscl and into Active directory -> domain -> users, but when I am logged in on this laptop I use my mobile account, so it doesn’t appear to show up in there. Should I log in as the new network account that was created when I upgraded to Tiger (which I haven’t used at all, but I know when I log into it as the network account, it has a completely different profile, yet the two accounts seem to share a single account on the machine as far as System Preferences and Netinfo Manager show) and do the dscl after that?

Thanks guys,
John[/QUOTE]

Using the shortname of a duplicate user account, try the following:

dscl localhost -read /Search/Users/uid

Where ‘uid’ is the shortname.

Log in as the mobile account, run the command, then log in as the network account, run the command and compare the results.

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