[MacTUG] Golden Triangle Woes with 10.5 clients on 10.6 server

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Hi Guys

I have been happily deploying my lab image to my new 10.6 machines, and getting deploystudio to bind to AD and OD. However when I do the same thing on the 10.5 macs I am running into problems. Before going out the wider world (but after I googled around) I thought I would see if anyone here has some ideas. I totally forgot to try the 10.5 clients. Arrrrgh.

The weird part of the problem is that it is not AD that appears to be giving me the grief, it appears to be OD. I am “blaming” my OD bind because if I do not bind to OD and just bind to AD then I can log on. Of course none of the nice stuff that OD gives (and is obviously not a solution!). I am guessing that  OD is trying to do authentication and (obviously) failing at it. I have changed the search order so that AD is before OD an visa versa, and this did not help.

To add to the head-scratching, the client thinks everything is hunky dory. When bound using deploystudio, the bindings are viewed as successful. When I do it by hand, they appear to work. When I check their status in Directory Utility, they both get the ‘green light’ all systems go status.

The last frustration in this darned thing is that this was going to be the only term when I was using 10.5 in the golden triangle. Over the summer I am buying enough new macs that I can migrate to 10.6. Maybe I am buying them sooner, haha.


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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environmental Studies
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/computing/people/don.html
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