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Hello

I have/had the same troubles. I had to configure 3 different MacOSX Servers, all 10.4.8 with the latest Updates, in the recent days at different customers. I was experiencing 3 times a real nightmare, hours to promote a standalone server to a opendirectory master. Always the same error logs. I have to say, that I had followed step by step all official Apple manuals, also the Book “Mac OS X Server 10.4 Tiger” from Schoun Regan, but also advices from different forums. DNS was always perfect before trying the first promoting attempt. In the end after several attempts to promote and depromote, the opendirectory master worked correctly (but without any change to the DNS settings etc.!!) No way to explain why it did not work the first four – five attempts (hours of useless work) neither why it worked in the end but at a certain time it does … no further comments, but I am really scared to setup a next XServe, better I will change the job.

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