My coworker and I have determined that we are going to scrap our current machintosh lab setup and use the Xserver to do DHCP, DNS and Open Directory for all lab computers on campus. I’ve never made the “Magic Triangle” setup work and it caused a lot of chaos last year trying to make it work (and stay working for more than a week).
We are proposing the following:
1) XServe will be in charge of it’s own subnet/Vlan/and domain (maclab.example)
a. Xserver will perform DHCP and primary DNS server roles for that subnet
b. the Windows Servers will receive zone transfers as secondary DNS servers for the maclab.example domain.
c. BIND Dynamic DNS will be implemented if possible.
d. Xserver will be a secondary DNS server for our “main domain” (main.example) or will forward to it.
e. XServe will accept recursive queries from Windows Servers
2) XServer will use SMB DC emulation to allow the few windows lab machines to authenticate.
3) SteadyState will handle control of Windows Lab machine settings.
4) No trusts for single sign-on will be set up, users will authenticate to shares on other network as needed.
Has anyone done something similar and do you have any warnings about common pitfalls? Are there any walkthroughs for dummies explaining settup of zone transfers between OS X and windows 2003 server? I think I understand the concept pretty well but this would be the first time I’ve attempted to set one up.
I’m assuming that DHCP and DNS on the Mac server work together automagically, registering host names dynamically etc, is this a good assumption?
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