Netinfo broadcast protocol connection

[Anonymous]

Hi!
Hope you can help – I’ve been tearing my hair out over this one. I’m new to OSX server, and trying to setup from scratch on a small network behind a router. I setup OSX server 10.2.6 from fresh, and set it to be an open directory and password server, but my ibook does not pick up the netinfo domain unless I explicity type in the IP address and network tag using Directory Access. My understanding was that the ibook should need no further setup – it should automatically find the server and try and authenticate if there is no user record in the local domain.
I want to keep it on auto discovery, since if I enter a server and then wander off with my iBook, things really slow down…
Hope someone out there can help this little beginners question!

Kurija

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick response Joel. I’m understanding bit by bit! It’s more of a struggle than I thought. To put the MAC address in netinfo what label do I put in? I understand I need the netinfo labels: name, serves and ip_address, but don’t know what to put in for the MAC address
Thanks,

Gregor

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