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Re: [Fed-Talk] NetBoot with Active Directory Accounts
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Re: [Fed-Talk] NetBoot with Active Directory Accounts


  • Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] NetBoot with Active Directory Accounts
  • From: Joel Rennich <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:56:49 -0700


On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Simon, Gary wrote:

Has anyone tried to configure a NetBoot image so that it could use Active Directory accounts? I can’t seem to find any documentation on how this could be done.

The tricky thing here is the machine account.

Two options:

1. bind the machine and then image. Use dsconfigad to change the password change time to something very very long. All machines will use the same machine account. If any one of them changes it... all the others will stop working.

2. Image the machine unbound. Have a launchd item to bind after boot. Each machine uses it's own machine account. However, you'll probably have a boatload of orphaned accounts after doing this for a while. Plus on first boot you'll have a bit of a delay as the machine binds to AD before the users can login. This might not be noticeable.

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