No "network" tag available

[DominikHoffmann]

I wroked through Joel Rennich’s article Setting up Network Home Folders on Mac OS X Server 10.2, but for whatever reason, I don’t have a NetInfo domain with the word “network” in it. This is after following steps 1-3 in said article. Why don’t I, and what can I do differently to remedy this? Will I have to, or can I work with what I’ve got:

• NetInfo/root
  NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode

Dominik Hoffmann

[Cabbage]

I was playing around with NFS and automounts last nite so i figured I’d try the article.

I have the same domains as you

NetInfo/root
NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode

–NetInfo/root
There are about 150 users in this domain

–NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode
Has the account I used to setup the server and another administrative account

I was getting the DNS error that it says in the article but I was able to fix it (i’m not sure how). I am able to login as and have a NHF for a user that is in NetInfo/root. I have another user that is in both domains. The NHF shows up but I can’t write anything to it.

[Anonymous]

If I’m not mistaken, /NetInfo/root is the network domain. It automatically receives the “network” tag in NetInfo.

When you configure a share to automount in Workgroup Manager, choose “/NetInfo/root” for the “Mount volume for all users in…” option

Brandon Houston

[Cabbage]

I pretty much figured that out but don’t you think it’s kind of confusing. If it’s the network tag shouldn’t it be called network?

[Anonymous]

The NetInfo database name is the tag name, e.g. network.
The information contained by a NetInfo database is called a domain. The domain name is a logical name.
At the top of a NetInfo Manager window you se tag@host to the left and the domain name to the right.
The domain contained in the network database is the top domain in a two level NetInfo hieracy and therefor called root (/)

[Cabbage]

Now it makes sense.

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