Step by step instructions for seting up OD Master

[CostasPPC1]

Is there any source of getting step by step instructions of setting up an OD Master?

Thanks

Kostas

[CostasPPC1]

Yes I did. Even though it is very well written, it describes “vanilla” situations, where everything is going pretty cool and nothing bad is happening. When I say step by step, I mean from a advanced user point of view.

Thanks

Kostas

[DominikHoffmann]

Also, over at [url=http://www.makemacwork.com/]Mac Mac Work[/url] they have instructions on how to do this. Refer to the sidebar on the right to find the topic “Master Open Directory” (Part 1 and 2).

Dominik

[CostasPPC1]

Well, the MakeMacWork article was what I was looking for. Here in Greece, we dont have any sort of info for the Apple Servers, (there is no Apple Training Center) except the Apple Manuals and the books. Since any book for 10.5 Server is not published yet, Im looking for the best info I can get.

Thanks very much

Kostas

[deemery]

I upgraded my Tiger Server to Leopard, that went OK (well not really, but I was able to work around the problems…)

On Leopard, Share points are managed from the Server manager. So I went over to the Server manager, and tried to create a new share. It asked me for the Open Directory password. I used -the same User ID/Password- that works just fine in Workgroup Manager, but it didn’t like that.

So I though, OK, let me go back through the Open Directory documentation. I thought, let me recreate the OpenDir account, by first setting this to a standalone server, and then promoting it.

When I do that, I get a screen asking to create a directory administrator account. I’ve tried various account names and ID numbers, and in all cases I get the same (damn!) result: “This server has not been configured as an Open Directory master. Error has Occurred! Error value = 68”

That’s about as much help as I’d expect from Windows!

Anyone have any idea what is happening here, and more importantly how I can work around this?

Thanks much in advance! What I thought would have been an easy over-Christmas project has turned into a major pain-in-the-posterior. (At least my currently working Tiger Server machine is not compromised…)

thanks in advance, as always

dave ([email protected] or [email protected])

[deemery]

I was able to work past this yesterday, but as usual it was rough.

The previous setup was an OD Master. But it was not using DNS. Under Tiger server it worked fine based on .local only. (Now -why- I need to set up DNS and establish a “real” domain name when all I’m providing is OD within a NAT-enabled tiny network is beyond me…)

I did all this using the Server Admin tool (I’m running Leopard Server on a G5 desktop)

After I got a DNS configuration established and running (MUCH easier than last time…), I was able to create the OD Master.

Next I created my sharepoint structure in Server Admin. Then I went over to the Workgroup Manager tool, and tried to (re)create my accounts. These did not come over/survive the upgrade (which was a surprise.)

I -still- have problems understanding how to set up home directories. Eventually, through both trial-and-error and various restarts of the Workgroup Manager tool, the sharepoint I wanted for home directories came up, I was able to create the homes on this mount point, and with some additional terminal-level messing around I was good-to-go. It’s -very frustrating- to try to create a home directory in the Workgroup Manager tool, and have it fail silently (you enter what you think is the right sharepoint info, you press “make home now” then “save”. Nothing happens. No error message, no new directory created where you expect. This is terribly frustrating.)

A related problem I had was that the share structure from the previous server/previous machine came over. Because that machine wasn’t running, I was unable to -delete- the old shares on it using the Server Admin tool. It wouldn’t let me highlight a share to delete because it couldn’t find the share. That’s dumb! But I was able to do that from the command line.

Anyway, I now have things running in the local network, including networked & mobile home directories. After getting the Server stable, I went to my laptop and upgraded it to Leopard. I did so by backing everything up from the laptop FIRST (a very wise move!), -removing- the FileVault directory, logging into the laptop and saying ‘yes’ when it asked me to create the mobile directory. Then I restored my files from the laptop’s backup. I’ve seen comments from others about problems migrating from Tiger Mobile directories to Leopard, so I wasn’t surprised by this.

The last steps will be to move this new server onto the ‘net as a replacement for the existing server, so I can take advantage of the new web features (which is actually why I bought Leopard Server…)

My setup is trivially small, 2 household users and maybe a half-dozen occasional users that update info on websites. I sure hope people with production-scale facilities have an easier time than I’ve had.

Is anyone going to do a Leopard Server how-to book?

dave

[Leppy]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: CostasPPC1[/u][p]Is there any source of getting step by step instructions of setting up an OD Master?

Thanks

Kostas[/p][/QUOTE]

http://www.makemacwork.com/master-open-directory-1.htm

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