On 13 Mar 2006, at 23:36, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Like Marc already said - if you want to centralize this
information, you should make one of these machines an LDAP server
and bind the other to it. Netinfo is deprecated and any setups you
build around it will most likely break in Leopard (yes, even the
local netinfo databases are going away).
If they'd make a tool as useful and intuitive as NetInfo Manager,
then maybe LDAP might be palatable, but the way things are, the
mixture of LDAP, flat files, NetInfo, etc. is a mess. I still
remember the NetInfo-only world of NeXTSTEP: it had some minor
issues, but it was a joy to administer (yes, only useful in a
physically trusted environment, etc. but that could have been fixed...)
I severely hope that when your Leopard predictions come true its a
complete overhaul that has real tools that properly visualize the
database structures, etc. and isn't just a minor refinement of the
current mess minus NetInfo... I mean, who e.g. even cares to remember
all this LDAP tuple tags? I can't remember these things for more than
two seconds. OTOH, without even trying I still know where most things
should go in NetInfo.
And please: no more convoluted tools like Workgroup Manager! Server
Admin would be bearable if it weren't so slow and wouldn't be often
out of sync with reality. And no more intermediate files that get out
of sync with the real settings...
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