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I guess I’ll answer my own question once I play around with it a little more. Looks like the maximum is only 1 hour. 😡

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CCC and NetRestore will probably be dead since it looks like they have been added to Disk Utility in Panther.

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Can you post it if possible.

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Apple Remote Desktop controls OS 8, 9 and X. But to observe/control it has to be run on OS X.

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They’re in the local domain, not the network domain.

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What’s Apple Network Assistant?

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>>but how does this help working with using Apple’s Backup utility?
on my server in /Users there are 160 home directories for everyone in my company. I have to backup one folder on one mac to backup every users home dir. So it’s a much simpler backup stratrgy.

>>I’ve looked at networked home directories what’s it for?
It’s for users to have their home dir/preferences travel from mac to mac. For instance I can log in to my mac and have my home dir and all my email and my preferences. I go to another mac next to me and log in as me I have all the same files. I go to yet another mac that is across the building and I still have all my files. I can be logged into all of them simulatenously too.

>>In our scenario, we have 3 laptops that are in and out of the network
I wouldn’t use network home directories for laptops. You’re on the right track to back the home dirs to the server.

Why don’t you just use Carbon Copy Cloner or PSyncX to do incremental backups. Setup a schedule to back up to the server (if it’s availble). Or add a login/logout hook to copy the files to the server everytime they login and logout.

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I think it’s somewhere in here

/private/etc/openldap/schema

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I have no need for this since I use networked home directories. If I had local users then I’d attempt to do it. Has anyone else given it a shot?

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Free
VNC

Money
Apple Remote Desktop – for Mac only
slower than Timbuktu but can do more for macs like installing .pkg/.mpkg remotely
$300 for 10 client which
$500 for unlimited

Netopia Timbuktu Pro – for Windows and Mac
$95 mac only
$200 for both

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Many people have emailed me saying that they have changed it. Most of them aren’t using Password Server though which seems the hardest to make work. Check out these links for now.

http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/solutions/mac/osx-ip.html

http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=MOSXServerIPChange

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SchechterGary,
Only the teacher would have to be running the server if you want more than 10 people to connect at one time

300 / 20 = 15 copies of server for each teacher

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AFS Monitor 1.0

[url]http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7480[/url]

I’m sure mactroll will let you know the command line way to do it 😉

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I’m writing a FAQ about this for the mac os x server mailing list since some people say they can do it and some people say you can’t and have to reinstall. I’ll report my findings.

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That’s about as much as I can help. The PC’s where I work are all in one department with there own subnet that I don’t have to worry about. I only have one that’s barely used so I didn’t think it was worth figuring all the Windows/OS X intergration stuff.

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