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I ended up creating another new account, now everything is working correctly. It’s a little worrying that an error like this is hit and miss. Anyone else had a similar experiance?

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I have, but still no joy. Might try taking the finder prefs from the working account and overwriting the broken account ones. Shouldn’t have any adverse affect being user specific I guess.

I’m wondering if it’s an issue with the template account. All the other accounts were created 18 months+ ago, may be a system update since then has changed something in the template? Would explain it only affecting the new account.

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SUCCESS!!!

DNS was a Red-Herring! I removed Xcode from the install image and hey presto!

Also have Software Update working with the Hostconfig file set to ‘tigerserv.local’

Now all I need to do is get on with Task server!

Cheers

Wez. 😛

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Ok just found out something interesting! Xcode prevents NetInstall from completing. Just need to create a new image without it selected for install.

Will post success or misery in a couple of days as I have a day of work 😀

Wez.

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Heres the server log for netboot

[code]Feb 26 17:23:02 tigerserv bootpd[324]: BSDP DISCOVER [en0] 1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2 NetBoot001 arch=ppc sysid=PowerMac10,1
Feb 26 17:23:02 tigerserv bootpd[324]: BSDP OFFER sent [1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2] pktsize 355
Feb 26 17:23:07 tigerserv bootpd[324]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2 NetBoot001 arch=ppc sysid=PowerMac10,1
Feb 26 17:23:07 tigerserv bootpd[324]: NetBoot: [1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2] BSDP ACK[LIST] sent 10.13.4.64 pktsize 300
Feb 26 17:23:16 tigerserv bootpd[324]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2 NetBoot001 arch=ppc sysid=PowerMac10,1
Feb 26 17:23:16 tigerserv bootpd[324]: NetBoot: [1,0:d:93:5f:3a:d2] BSDP ACK[SELECT] sent 10.13.4.64 pktsize 358
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: interface en0: ip 10.13.3.108 mask 255.255.224.0
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: server name tigerserv
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: subnets init using domain . failed:
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: bsdpd: re-reading configuration
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: bsdpd: shadow file size will be set to 48 megabytes
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: bsdpd: age time 00:15:00
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,0:14:51:61:e9:3a arch=ppc sysid=PowerMac11,2
Feb 26 17:29:13 tigerserv bootpd[443]: NetBoot: [1,0:14:51:61:e9:3a] BSDP ACK[LIST] sent 10.13.4.62 pktsize 300[/code]

This time I got as far as finalising the installation (image of 10.4.6 DVD PPC) but the install screen displays “there were errors installing the software” Surely incorrect DNS would have halted this sooner?

Am I correct in thinking that the booter file is transferred using TFTP, then once the client system is launched NFS takes over? Maybe NFS can’t resolve the DNS?

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Thanks for the response khiltd.

I’m not using BIND, to be honest I wouldn’t know where to begin. Could it be something worth looking into? As far as I can tell I need a way of redirecting and traffic looking for ‘tigerserv’ to ‘tigerserv.local’ may be this could be done client side?

As far as client machines ‘Knowing about the server’, it is running stand-alone for software update, and ideally NetBoot (next on the agenda would be a task server). All this needs to run stand-alone as we already have a Active Direcory and LDAP running through a Win Server though the Macs don’t use this.

Cheers

Wez.

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