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created a new user using workgroup manager, with admin rights on the box and still can’t log in via console.

At this point I’m on very unfamiliar turf, and don’t quite know what to attempt.

I’ve looked at netinfo manager and niutil but not sure how lookupd is fouled in looking at getpwnam_A. It feels just like lookupd is not looking at the right file, but how do I get it to look at the correct file, or get it to be able to read the correct file.

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I’m in thru netinfo manager, and can’t see anything altered. I’m reassured that I can get in this way, but would like to try to fix this. I’m just not sure what to look at.

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quick clarification. Is it chmod 1755, or chmod 1775?

MacTroll says 1755, and Apple url sited above says 1775.

Paused between 5 & 7… hmmm

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Okay, so you have what I’ve done above.

To test this I rebooted the box, and then once if finished its reboot, I opened NetInfo Manager. The preference were still set to open / by default. When it opened it opened the local nidb near as I can tell as it was full of stuff, but not necessarily showing the network nor the machine foo.

Now if I open by tag and open foo with tag network, I do see what I saw above, but… I get an error…
Domain / has no root account. You must log in on the computer named foo/network (where the master is located) to make changes.

I’m beginning to feel really dumb in regards to NetInfo…, and I’m pretty good with this unix stuff.

According to what I’m seeing, I’m not actually serving the info that is shown in local, which is my users and shares and such. Is that correct or am I just not trusting this NetInfo stuff.

thanks again and again.

[stmoddell]

Maybe I’m wrong

I checked my NetInfo Manager prefs (cause I knew I’d changed ’em) and it turns out, I was set default to open a domain that no longer existed.

I changed those local and it opens with no problem.
I’ve now changed those again to / to see what happens…
Well, hmmm, seems to be improved. It opens the network domain as served by server foo.
So it reads / machines > foo >
foo shows property
ip_address 192.168.0.10
name foo
serves ./network

I’m hoping that all this is correct. Of course it doesn’t show any of the infor that fills the local entry…. Is that correct? Is this now serving my local network an OSX server domain?

thanks in advance and feel free to point me a URLs and say RFM
oh, and thanks again for all your help.

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Well thanks for the suggestions, but I think that it walked you thru the Server Setup Assistant because you blew away your local nidb. Not certain, but since I did what you instructed above, and I’m still not able to get the Server Setup Assistant to kick off….

So this is the way things are now.
I have nidomain -l showing
tag=network udp=985 tcp=985
tag=local udp=1033 tcp=1033

I’m unable to open NetInfo manager, or more correctly, the app will open but I get this following error.
Domain (null) has no root account. You must log in on the computer named (null) (where the master is located) to make changes.

This is puzzling, because I am on that computer.

If I attempt to re-run Server Setup Assistant if doesn’t show any servers in the list of hosts/IP’s. Further if I attempt to unlock to edit, it asks me for the first 8 digits of the server license. I put in every combination of that I can think of and it still fails to authenticate.

I don’t necessarily want to blow away the local nidb, but I guess I could mv it to local.nidb.old or some such. What are your thoughts. Mostly I don’t want to have to reset up users like httpd, sshd, and such.

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Thanks for the info. I used the command and found out what domains the machine was serving out; local and Network. It was also useful to know that it was serving those out on udp & tcp port numbers (my firewall has those ports closed) .

My next series of questions are how to recover from the mistakes I made after…. 😳

I blew away the netinfo server entry for Network, as I was trying to change its name (clone would have been a better idea, I’m sure). I read the man pages on nidomain, and had the thought, hmm wonder what nibindd does…, and in so wondering forgot to read up on it before typing in the command… (okay, sometimes I learn by burning myslef) 🙄

In doing that I appear to have caused myself some rather complex issues. What is the best way back out of this mess. I’d rather not reinstall, as there is .conf files and data on this box that would be a pain to recreate. My user list is tiny and hasn’t really been used, so if I can just find a way to start from scratch on the netinfo side of things (hopefully using server setup assistant or some such) ❓

again, any and all help appreciated.

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Sloppy, Lazy Apple. I’m wondering if other Sys Admin’s are running it this issue as well. Sounds like something that they should add to there Knowledge Base.

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I’ll try to answer your questions.

Server Settings is daemonized on my server as well, but it does not appear to be in any startup script, at least not that I could find. So, currently if I want to run the Server Settings App. I have to start serversettings manually.

This is a fresh installation of 10.2 Server. It is a wee bit hoopdy in that it is on an 8600 with a G3/300mhz upgrade card. (Using XpostFacto, from OWC). It feels like the Server Settings Daemon doesn’t install correctly, or at least doesn’t startup correctly.

Lastly, that line is not in my watchdog script. I’m adding it, as it appears to be a useful place to ensure that this, and other daemons remain running.

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http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.3bbb3438/0

This is the thread that helped me solve this issue.

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I get the same error no matter what I enter.
localhost
hostname.foo.bar
ipaddress

All will return the error that Server Settings cannot find an agent on the port. Please check to make sure agent is running. (not exact wording, because I am not in front of server)

things that are probably useful to know.
I run my own DNS, but only own a portion of the IP range, so I don’t have reverse lookup control. There is reverse lookup, but it is DSL providers useless naming. something like ADSL-192-168-1-138-DSLprovider.com .

My DNS, is set up to provide hostname.foo.bar with IP info or 192.168.1.138, but reverse is not set up. I will be moving the machine to internal private IP in the near future, and will have reverse DNS control at that point.

Should I have an alias record for hostname.foo.bar as ADSL-192-168-1-138-DSLprovider.com for 192.168.1.138?

All IP’s and naming is examples (obviously, but wanted to be sure to be clear)

I’ve seen at least one other posting with this issue, on another forum, but as yet neither of us have gotten useful feedback. I’m hopefull….

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So I’m not lucky enough to have an XServe yet. But in all my current servers, I only use hardware RAID. Never had any luck with software RAID, so if the Apple RAID is software based, I wouldn’t trust it.

I’m surprised that partitioning the arrays isn’t avaialble. Sound like this is a product in the early stages of life.

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Howdy,

I’m familiar with DNS, inside and out. Would be very happy to help you with this issue.

Also familiar with IP sharing (NAT; Network Address Translation), and would love to give you a hand on this as well.

If these issues still exist for you, please let me know. I’d be happy to be very reasonable.

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Ok, rebuilt server from blank HD.
Now Server Setting will fire up, but how do I get it to connect? This seems like it should be obvious, but it isn’t.

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