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Seems to be our network blocking IRC 🙁

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Would love to join you on IRC but Colloquy doesn’t seem to be working. Alternative clients?

Also, ran the user creation part of the script on a Lion machine. It created an account and I can login, however it can’t find the home directory.
I DID copy (ditto actually) /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj to /Users/myUser and changed the ownership (chown -R), but no luck.
Also, in System Preferences -> Accounts, I can right click on the created user and choose “Advanced Options”, but nothing happens. On a different, known good user, I do get the options.
So I’m not sure the user was created correctly.

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Cool. If I didn’t want it to have guest properties than I would just set that to be false, correct?
Are there any other properties that are guest specific that I would want to omit.
I’m working this into the createUser package now to try it out.

This script uses:
[code]dscl . -create $userPath $attribute $data[/code]
but the current createUser uses
[code]dscl -f /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default localonly -create $userPath $attribute $data[/code]

I’ve used dscl some but am by no means a master. Could you tell me the difference in the way it is addressing the local nodes and why it matters?

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As I stated, I really did not want to go with SIU from past experiences and limitations…………
SO I installed DeployStudio!

The documentation and setup is a little confusing, but I got it up and running in a relatively short amount of time.
Imported my InstaDMG image and I’m off and running! 😀

My images seem to be deploying fine. Are there any gotchas or new user tips that you would suggest/warn me about?
I’m not sure if I’ll stick with DS for just deploying my InstaDMG images, or try to convert my workflow to use the packaging stuff in DS. For this semester anyway, I already have my image. But going forward, we’ll see.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]So DS optionally creates a custom environment within an NBI, but needs to be created on the newest hardware you intend to boot. If instaDMG-built images can’t be patched to a level that supports newer hardware, InstaNBI does not help us. Here’s a workflow, though:

1. build the image whichever way works for you
1.5 restore it to a disk if applicable
2. boot it and perform any tweaks you’d wish(custom background, auto-login, ARD access if not set by your build process)
3. then capture the disk with SIU[/list]

Right? Credit for verifying all those steps above is due to natewalck in the ##osx-server IRC, perhaps you could join us there sometime?

Allister[/p][/QUOTE]

Allister – first thanks for your quick replies.
Second, I’m not sure I understand your point: [QUOTE]If instaDMG-built images can’t be patched to a level that supports newer hardware, InstaNBI does not help us.[/QUOTE] InstaDMG only builds the asr dmg images. I need an nbi Netboot set to boot the Macs and get the asr dmg deployed. As far as I know, InstaDMG doesn’t build nbi sets (though what I referred was a post claiming that the devs were working on including that functionality by talking with the InstaNBI devs). So I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing here.
Third, I specifically do NOT want to use SIU. I think it is way to restrictive and it adds an additional 2-4 GB to image size.
Fourth, it’s been a long time since I was on IRC – I’ll have to get back on and visit you on #osx-server
Finally, perhaps you could give me a run down of the requirements for DS. I hear about but my system has been working up until now. Does it tie into Apple’s NetBoot or provide it’s own. The guides on their website seem to be from 2009, but surely it is working on Snow Leopard/Lion. Also, can I use my InstaDMG images with DS? I really like the concept of InstaDMG and the thought of learning a whole new system again doesn’t make me jump at DS but tell my why I should!

Thanks

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Well, I’m kinda talking about NRH but not really. What else is there to build nbi folders?
Maybe I should look at DS but for the past several years all I have used is an nbi built from a Mac Pro 2 years ago that has booted everything up to the newest iMacs and Mac Minis and InstaDMG to build my images.

Basically I still want the functionality to boot to an environment and choose my dmg (ala NRH) but I have to have an nbi that supports the newest hardware. I don’t use SIU due to the wanted ability to pick and choose images and I haven’t found a way to do that with SIU.

So back to the original question – if you’re not using DS, then what do you use to build nbi folders? I just read a post from a year or two ago that InstaNBI was being built in to InstaDMG. Whatever happened to that project? I assume there was no need due to the use of DS or *something else*.

My current environment is straight Apple 10.6.8 w/ NetBoot. Again Mac Pro nbi and InstaDMG created dmgs.

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No one ever responded to this!

Are you all just using InstaNBI with updated InstallerChoices?
Is there something else you are using? I’m not running DS so I can’t do it with that.
NRH errors out with the error: ditto: can’t find real path to source.

Thanks!

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Surely someone has seen this in there labs!

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I know the createUser.pkg file here on afp548 has a password hash function but I’m not sure how that is called.
Other alternatives could be to have a bind only user so that even if it is compromised, the permissions are such that an attacker couldn’t really do anything.
Couple that with deleting the script after it runs by making the last line srm “$0”. This will cause the script to be, in essence, self-destructing.

Hope this helps.

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FINALLY! I am having the exact same issue and no one seems to know about it! My server is a completely fresh updated install of 10.6.4 with a new magic triangle. Everything looks right – DNS is right, the cert is showing as valid. It is a GoDaddy cert with the intermediate cert installed on both client and server. From the client I get error 10000 which, according to an Apple KB article (HT4183) states the problem is with the server?!

Please if anyone knows anything about this, throw us a bone!

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