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Re: DNS woes

Mike,

You're right, I don't "need" to netboot them. I just wanted to give it
a try. I probably didn't need to buy os x server, or build a terabyte
raid to do any of this stuff. In fact, I know I didn't. But I wanted
to learn, since this type system administration is beyond anything I've
done before. But my boss is very willing to financially back my
learning endeavors. With that in mind, I thought it would be a good
excuse to implement a netboot environment. At the heading of you and
others on this list though, thats taking a bit of a back-seat to my
primary need, which is getting these server-based authentication
accounts working. Which brings me back to the DNS woes.

From what I've read (forgive me if I'm repeating myself again) in order
to remote authenticate for accounts, I need to have KDC running for
Open Directory to work, and I still haven't been able to get that to
work. I did figure out the main DNS issues I had, which I thank a lot
of you on here for. I'll tell you what though, the instructions on
http://www.gtarling.com/dns/dns2.php were right on point, it was just
me being stupid. I never bothered to change in the network control
panel or anywhere to list my server (that contained the modified,
non-authorative dns records) as a name server! So for a while,
probably, the dns records on this machine were correct, I just wasn't
checking against them!

Figures it would be something dumb like that. But nevertheless, that's
working now. I'm going to follow Daniel Decker's way of going about
things (repeated below for reference), because even though I got the
DNS stuff working now, I still did things in a slightly roundabout
fashion and KDC still isn't starting, which hopefully following this
step-by-step fashion will resolve.


> Daniel Decker's quote:
> Here is a regimen that I suggest.
>
> Reinstall X Server.
> When you set up the IP address, point the server to itself for DNS
> Set to be a Standalone server in the initial setup
> Turn on NO other services (AFP, Web)
> Repair permissions after the initial login
> Update to 10.3.4 ONLY (I suggest downloading the combo updater from
> Apple outside of SU)
> Repair permissions
> Open Server Admin and set up DNS according to the instructions in the
> Network Services manual of the OS X Server manual
> *you can initially only set up the records for the server, others can
> be added later*
> After DNS is set up, Restart for good measure.
> Open Server Admin and promote the server to Open Directory Master.
>
> OK, Now there is a slim chance that KDC and slapd refuse to run still,
> in this case I'll refer you to this Apple KBase article:
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107702


Thanks again,
Erin





> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:11:11 -0400
> From: Michael Rose <email@hidden>
> Reply-To: email@hidden
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: DNS woes
>
> Hi Erin --
>
> Just wondering: are you sure you need to NetBoot to get the
> functionality you want? There's no reason that you can't host the user
> accounts on your server, while allowing the G5s to boot Mac OS X from
> their local hard drives. (This will also speed things up a lot,
> especially first thing in the morning when everyone starts up at the
> same time...)
>
> I don't have a lot of experience with remote user accounts but I'm
> sure someone on the list can supplement. NetBooting would be more
> appropriate for a lab configuration where you need to be sure that all
> your software is in sync.
>
> --Mike Rose
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