[jadnhm]

Yeah, see, that’s no good for me, because I need it to be run on a Mac OS 9 administration machine.

any suggestions?

[jadnhm]

From
[url=http://lm.ucdavis.edu/rooms/facguide/what.html]UCDavis[/url]

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Apple Network Assistant is an application that facilitates collaboration in a computer room environment. The four available functions of ANA are as follows.

1. Observe any other macintosh in the computer room.
2. Control any other macintosh in the computer room.
3. Share screens with multiple macintoshes in the computer room.
4. Lock the screen of a specific macintosh or all macintoshes in the computer room.

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It’s what was used to perform the Apple Remote Desktop Functions on Mac OS 8 & 9.

[jadnhm]

Are you planning on using the Xserve you already have or buying a new one? Because there’s probably going to be some major revisions to hardware coming on Monday. You might want to wait to have your hardware questions answered then, if you’re planning on buying new hardware to do this job for you.

[jadnhm]

Previous suggestion seemed to work fine. I just couldn’t find the MM update I was looking for the first time…. as soon as I found it everything seemed to go as expected, and now my image works well too.

Thanks

[jadnhm]

It seems that my problems with dropping IPs has been traced, at least preliminarily, to the dead link problem.

When the server machine was running with an inactive network jack (no link to a network keeping it alive) the software would drop its IP. This seems to be reproducible.

I have acquired a 10Mbs hub for testing now from an associate, and things seem much smoother now.

Thanks for all the help everyone. I’ve learned some very valuable things from all of you through this process.

-Joel

[jadnhm]

I have been testing my NetBoot clients using just a crossover cable to create a private network …

So if what you said is right, then not having the connected client powered on (or connected) would make the server machine’s (physical) network interface fail to establish that it is on a network, and not configure the software correctly?

Does this make sense?

Thanks again for the help.

I’ll try some things out and let you know how it turns out.

[jadnhm]

on a previous iteration of MOSXS install I had tried to change the IP and you’re totally right, everything falls apart as soon as you try to do that.

This time though, I did not attempt to change the IP address of the machine.

I have, actually, rerun the setup assistant (by deleting the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and rebooting ) and the configuration went just as expected, but it didn’t reset things for me…. So I still have this no IP problem

[jadnhm]

PS

networksetup reports that my Built-in Ethernet interface has the following info:
Manual Configuration
IP address: 10.0.0.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 10.0.0.1
Ethernet address: [it’s correct]

which all looks fine to me, but both the Network Utility and ifconfig report that the machine has no IP address. So something is messed up between what the MOSXS software thinks is going on and what’s really being done at a lower level.

Once again, this is not the first time this has happened.

[jadnhm]

No, I haven’t been trying to configure IP using ifconfig. I just tried it once in an attempt to get a that network port working again.

Do you know what text file the IP configuration info is kept in?

Do you know when/why/how that file is used for configuration?

Do you know anything about resetting that address, or how to change it?

Can anyone think of any reasons why my MOSXS machine would be working fine for a while and then lose its IP configuration details?

Thanks for the advice on networksetup. This looks like a powerful utility, though it doesn’t really seem to be doing much for me right now. I’ll keep you posted.

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