IIRC, there was a menu Connect to parent server" or similar in Mac OS X
10.0 and 10.1. As this is gone, you probably have to dive into NetInfo's
configuration files now.
You don't configure the local netinfo database to connect to a parent
anymore. If you have a three-tier network, with local, faculty and root,
then faculty binds up against root using that old method mentioned in
the third or so post in this thread. The local domain and the client
however, uses the localtion preferences in
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist to determine
what to use as a master domain.
Me, I will miss
nicl -raw /Volumes/broken/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb
And as someone on this thread mentioned in the NetInfo SACL thread,
using the ds* commands is a hassle, compared to the old commands.
--
Klaus Wik
May contain traces of nut.
