On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 05:37 AM, Ed Crelin wrote:
Are you "assigning" computers to people? The only time I have seen
much use in this area is when you have "remote accounts" where someone
has a machine that they take on and off the network but need managed
services when they are not on and to sync it up when they are back.
This is the only thing I have done under the computers tab at all. In
fact I try to manage very little on the client, the dock, home folders
and a couple apps to keep the network traffic down but it is all done
via their user account not the computer. What computers are you trying
to add and for what reason? I thought you rebuilt this thing a few
times already? Before you wipe it just try this one thing out as it
was the last thing that I did and it fixed everything!
Ed
No, I haven't been using the Computers List tab at all. Don't have the
time to round up all the MAC addresses. And we have no mobile accounts
What I have done is tweak the default home folder mightily for users'
home folders. Everyone's Dock prefs, printer list, and all other system
prefs are set for them with a few settings available for personal
adjustment.
But I do no client management at all beyond the few local accounts I
have on the machines for emergency use and admin use.
Have been playing more and more with my setup here and have had a few
interesting developments today.
Took one of my standard computers and first changed the Directory
Access to include the second server (the replica) in the pathway. In
fact, I made it first in the authentication tab. So then I updated the
OS to 10.3.8. Then I target disk moded this machine to a new iMac. I
booted the iMac from this target disk and the login screen came up
fine. All the logins I tried worked perfectly, all student accounts,
admin, faculty, accounts with and without group affiliation and/or
prefs.
So there is something in the first build I created that works and
something in all subsequent builds that I am NOT doing. But I'll be
damned if I know what it is.
I did everything wrong in the original build's setup for Directory
Access. Checked all the boxes I didn't need, set the ldap to use
DHCP-supplied servers, set the configuration files to use the IP
address instead of the FQDN, checked to use NetInfo when I'm not using
it...And yet that build works and the new build with all those
Directory Access settings set correctly fails every time when a user is
in a group other than staff.
If there's a DNS problem going on here, I have no clue how to isolate
it and correct it.
So I'll be tweaking my old build for use on the new iMacs in the new
lab and then we'll try and sort out these weird behaviors at some
future date (Tiger, perhaps?)
Thanks, Ed for your wealth of advice and the time it took you to relay
it. It's much appreciated. I'll let you know if I get it all working
for next term. Network home directories across subnets -- here I come!
And thanks to everyone else who answered the call! I owe you all
bunches.
Thanks,
Ira
Ira Friedwald
FPA Media Arts Center
Portland State University
On Feb 24, 2005, at 11:29 PM, if wrote:
I keep getting weird error messages when I work in this part of the
app. Some plug-in says it isn't working correctly. This happens
whenever I try to add computers to the list. I can see that when I
get some real time, I'm going to have to rebuild the main server.
Ouch.
