Managed Prefs not being applied

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

We’re having a major problem at the moment with managed preferences not being applied. We have around 60 stations and they were all working fine on Friday. Yesterday morning we came in, and only one station was working! It seems that for some reason, the stations aren’t pulling down the managed preferences when you login.

Each station is bound to the AD for authentication, and the OD for group/station prefs. Therefore the user can login fine, but gets no dock icons or machine settings. I’ve unbound and rebound, deleted all the Directory Service prefs, deleted station from the AD and OD, rebuilt from the image and totally rebound into a new computer list using a different name, all to no avail. There are simply no preferences in the Managed Preferences folder. On the station that works, there are. All the stations were built at the same time by the same person, and have been working fine for weeks. I’ve also tried using the ‘refresh cache’ from WGM but this doesn’t do anything either. The machines can ping the Mac server, and they can unbind/rebind to the OD so they must be able to see it!

Does anyone know exactly how the stations retrieve the preferences, or if there is a terminal command to do it manually and hopefully get a better idea of any errors? Or anyone else seen this sort of thing? It’s deeply odd, especially as one or two machines work seemingly at random.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I should really have mentioned that both server and clients are 10.4.2 – sorry, been a long day!

[gw1500se]

You’re having the same problem as me. Except we have yet to get it to work on 10.4. See: https://www.afp548.com/eBBS/viewtopic.php?forum=39&showtopic=9267

I have an open issue with Apple on this. If you have a test client, try doing an erase install and see if that fixes it. If it does then it is a good bet we have the same problem but for idfferent reasons.

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