Hmm... he said he put the IP in as the search base. I assumed this
was in an effort to cause a timeout error on a bad config and delay
the startup.
nope - its required if there are ANY other servers on the network -
automatic only works if there is ONE server as per the sample. as soon
as there is another reachable server - then it must be specific as to
WHICH server to get the home from.
apple assumes that if you have more than one server then you have paid
folks to take care of it - they gear the manual to a person with one
server - if you read it and follow the directions verbatum it will
work. i have three servers, osx, linux, win2003 - so i have to be
specific.
Well, setting a custom authentication path for more than one server is
always needed. What he said he did though is enter the IP as the SEARCH
BASE for the LDAP server. Not add the LDAP server to the auth path via
the IP address.
this is a specific listed step in apples manual that all clients
that are using network homes need to have the ip address of the
server with the home folder added - without that it is very very
flakey.
however that bit of info is buried at the end of a paragraph near
the bottom of a page half way through the docs and is not indexed.
but as -dhan would remind us it IS there and it IS required.
Where is this info? I just poured over the Panther docs and can't
find it. Everything says DNS name _or_ IP address. I'm just curious
if you have a page number.
Getting Started.pdf page 120 to 126 for a SINGLE server page 126 is
for the client - the rest is for the server.
Heh. I always forget about the terrible little getting started guide.
The example they give on pages 120-126 is nasty. They have you promote
to master before setting up reliable, local DNS services.
a document "Client Management with Mac OS X Server Mac OS X Server
10.3 Panther and connected clients (9.2, 10.2X and 10.3.X)" contains
the information on how to make a bullet proof client that will always
connect and how to make sure that your client picks the right server
to find its home folder each time.
Is that an Apple document? None of the Panther server docs I can find
tell you to setup the server twice in the Authentication path of the
client. FWIW, we have never found a need to do so either if everything
is working properly.
Josh
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