[AaronAdams]

I’ve had this same problem multiple times with multiple servers and I’ve never seen a solution offered. Has anyone on this Earth ever fixed this problem, or know why it occurs?

[AaronAdams]

This has been a pretty constant problem with servermgrd for a bunch of people. The Apple support forums have a number of complaints about this. I finally started killing and restarting the process once a week, and then I increased it to once a day. I’ve got some instructions here:

http://www.aaronadams.net/index.php/2005/10/10/reign_in_an_out_of_control_servermgrd_pr

It’s simple stuff.

[AaronAdams]

I’ve taken the ACHDS exam, and I’d say that if you have a good familiarity with the day-to-day use of your Mac, you’ve got a very good chance of passing the exam. It’s multiple choice and it’s not very hard, in my opinion.

As for future prospects… I’ve gone on to get my ACTC certification and it hasn’t meant anything to me professionally. I like having it, but it seems (at least in my area) that Mac-related jobs are mostly sales and break-fix, and much less IT or more sophisticated pursuits.

[AaronAdams]

I’ve been able to accomplish something like this with fast user switching. I create a local user, and use Directory Access to set the LDAP domain for my network at home. Then I start IPSecuritas, the free VPN client I use. I return to the FUS login window, select the Other… user, and login to my LDAP domain at home via VPN.

[AaronAdams]

I answered my own question right here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301677

[AaronAdams]

The key size for both servers is 1024. I don’t know what I think about making it much weaker than that, I’d have to talk to the client(s) whose mail is hosted there.

[AaronAdams]

I’ve complained long and loud to Apple about the sheer awfulness that is the Tiger DNS GUI and they told me to get used to it. What they told me, in almost these words, is that the GUI is intended for people with the simplest DNS needs. Everyone else can learn BIND. I responded that the ability to edit such things in the GUI without needing to know the details of BIND was a big selling point for OS X server, and that they’re enforcing a false dichotomy by assuming you either have very simple needs, or you’re a BIND expert. They closed my bug report without responding.

So now you know.

[AaronAdams]

[QUOTE BY= fatman]I know this will come across as a stupid question, but I’ve never had to do this before…. What is the process to add network admins to a local machine? MacTroll talked about dragging the network admin group into the local admin group but I don’t understand how to do this. Is there anyway you could post a screenshot or two?[/QUOTE]
Couldn’t he use Workgroup Manager to connect to the target machine(s) and add domain groups to local groups that way?

[AaronAdams]

I wrote a quick little ditty on my own site about how to use command line ASR or Disk Utility to clone drives. Check it out, it may be useful to you.

[AaronAdams]

Great, thanks for taking time to help me out. There’s nothing unusual in /var/log/system.log. It records where I used sudo to execute the command, but that’s all. Is there a different log I should look at?

[AaronAdams]

The users are located in LDAP. To make sure I understand you correctly, I should use “sudo createhomedir -l” instead of “sudo createhomedir -a”?

[AaronAdams]

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your help.

[AaronAdams]

Doh! Thanks for the info.

[AaronAdams]

You might want to try AppleJack.

[AaronAdams]

For what it’s worth…

I’ve had this same problem when a DNS server was hardcoded in the network properties and it was unavailable when the mobile machine was connected to another network. Removing the DNS from the network properties and using the DHCP assigned address fixed the problem.

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