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I know that there are many options for handling DHCP and dynamic DNS on the OS X / Unix platform, but I want it handled natively by the OS or Apple. I’ve looked into dhcpd before, but the point of spending several thousand dollars on an Apple products and support is that I get a (mostly) reliable product with 24×7 support.

Besides, wouldn’t that be keeping all my eggs in one basket? 😉

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I didn’t specify the number of users because I was hoping someone would throw out a number instead of Apple’s generalized platitudes.

We currently have less than 50 employees.

This is not our only Xserve, but the other one will need to be updated to Leopard before I can use it to provide OD replication, etc.

Once some of the more vexing Leopard Server problems get fixed (AFP fails, DNS setup problems, etc.), I plan to transition everyone to this newer server, then update the older one and provide some redundancy and load-balancing between the two. In this big move I’ll be (trying) to transition everyone from “local user” mode to “managed directory” mode and I want to make sure that one Xserve can handle that many home directories, authentications, etc.

I would like to have a Windows server providing DNS and DHCP simply for the dynamic DNS updates of DHCP clients that have yet to be implemented on the Mac side, but that’s not in the budget right now.

Thanks for your help. Any other advice?

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This worked for me:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7090546

They bind (un-authenticated), Leopard OD users can log in, preferences are applied, etc.

Wish I had more details about why this works (or doesn’t).

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@Patrick
Yes, I am running the script as root and I am sure I’m running the right instadmg.bash (even though there are two in the download), otherwise I just get a couple of pages of errors in Terminal.

I don’t know how long that took because I started it and then left. Next time I’ll find out.

@knowmad
InstaDMG is running on 10.5.2 Server.

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