Apple

Ok, short story long.

Our institution is moving into the area of mac labs. We are moving to dual directory setup with ad and od. We have multiple sites and a couple are getting a mac lab. We will have a mac mini at each of those sites as a image server and master replication so the local tech can administer those labs as far as sharepoints, security settings, user accounts nested from ad.

My question and problem is down to the root of today’s problems (philosophical question for another time) is budget. I have a working knowledge of OD from 10.3 up to 10.5 OD services. I have always had a client machine that used to remote manage the clients using admin tools. My major question is this, is it a hard fact that in order to do this properly it MUST be done from a client machine using admin tools to setup a client preferences ect and if so I need documentation showing this so I can present it to the budget committee as justification of having another tech mac mini for those sites that are managing a dual boot Macintosh lab? I know that I can give instructional assistance with using a netboot tech client with the proper tools; however when major updates are needed, then the netboot image must be rebuilt with those updates to keep in sync with clients.

Short version, can I do all server management from the server only and if not why?

Thanks.

Joel Williford
Microcomputer Specialist
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