[macinandy]

You won’t be able to multicast if it is not scanned.
from man asr
– imagescan calculate checksums of the data in the provided image and store them in the image. These checksums are used to ensure proper restores. Also determines if the disk image is in order for multicasting, and rewrites the file in order if not. If the image has to be reordered, it will
require free disk space equal to the size of the disk image being scanned.

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[macinandy]

It sounds like you are trying to get ARD to do something that projects like Puppet or Radmind already do. Have you looked into those?

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[macinandy]

Hi, I’d have a look at the following
[url]http://www.wazmac.com/servers_network/fileservers/osxserver_setup/osxserver105_setup.htm[/url]
and [url]http://web.me.com/johnd/JohnDs_Site/Tips_%26_Tricks/Entries/2008/10/27_Tips_%26_Tricks_for_Macintosh_Management_-_Leopard.html[/url]
they should get you where you want to be.
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[macinandy]

Hi Carlo, I realise this may be a bit late for you but this probably isn’t the way i’d go about things. I’d be looking at using the server setup app in the server folder and setting up a config record for the new server,saving it to a pen drive and then installing the new server from scratch.
The server will look for this folder at first boot once the install has finished as per [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c6sa13.html[/url]
Setting up from scratch will give you less grief in the long run.
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[macinandy]

Hi Steve, this article may be what you’re looking for, for the binding part anyway.

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[macinandy]

after some testing this command should do it
dseditgroup -o edit -a “mac users” -t group -n . -u yoursername -P yourpassword localadmingroup
replacing yourusername yourpassword and localadmingroup with relevant info
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[macinandy]

I was just a bit surprised to see Netinfo in the command you’re using on leopard so thought I’d ask.
I’m not too sure myself of what the command would be, maybe
dseditgroup -o edit -a “mac users” -t group -n /Local/Default/Groups/localstudentadmin/

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[macinandy]

“The command I have been trying to nest the users is

dseditgroup -o edit -a “mac users” -t group -n /NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode admin

where mac users is the AD group.”

Add to NetInfo on a fully patched Leopard machine? Am I missing something?
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[macinandy]

What we have done in this instance is create class accounts and have them setup as mobile accounts, as we are talking 150 or so 5-7 year olds. So we only have these 8 ,mobile, accounts displayed on the login window. The only real issue is the permissions on their own folder on the server.

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[macinandy]

Hi whardy, it seems you aren’t doing any client side configuation is that correct?
Are you looking to use the Server just to file share or to hold user records?
I would probably do a reinstall and set it up as an advanced server as I don’t think you’ll get the functionally you want with a standard server. Having said that you have a lot of reading to do.
two reasons for this, one is so you can control easier your DNS your self the second is so you can setup a Windows Domain Controller.
Once you have this sorted I would create an OD domain and bind your macs to it.
Then go and setup a windows domain Controller on your Server and bind your windows machines to that.
this will allow your users to login on either machine and connect to the server.
Have a look at these resources for tiger and leopard server
http://www.wazmac.com/servers_network/fileservers/osxserver_setup/index.htm
http://www.wazmac.com/quickstarts/pdf/osx_server/tiger/080_win_osx_dmn.pdf
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[macinandy]

We use ServerCeanup ,among others,from [url]http://web.mac.com/bancher/My_Utilities/Home.html[/url]

[macinandy]

Hi striderida1, you can view the preferred Domain controller as set in the AD plug-in by using the dsconfigad -show command in the terminal. It won’t show you which one you’re logged into like the windows %LOGONSERVER% command but may be what you’re looking for.
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[macinandy]

Ok , think I understand you now. Yes the client would have AD and OD set in Directory Utility, AD being higher in the list on the Authentication ,and maybe Contacts, pane.

[macinandy]

Are you saying you want to export the AD users out to LDIF file then import them into OD and ditch AD ?

[macinandy]

Hi Nick, is there any difference between client and server architecture? I ran into a similar problem with an accounting application and after hours of to and fro-ing worked out that it was the PPC/Intel difference causing my frustration. Mac Pro with 1 Intel client and 3 PPC clients using WGM on the intel client would allow it to run on the server and itself adding it from a PPC client would only allow it on the other PPC clients.
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