[MacTUG] Workgroup manager not forgetting deleted computer

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

An update:
I have kludged a workaround. While the computer in question appears to be binding, it is not automatically appearing in the 'Computers' tab of WGM with the dollar sign on the end of it's name. But when I do go to the "Computer Groups" tab and click on the "…" button, I see it there (again, without the $ sign on the name). I can then add it from there, and things are fine.

This is still curious however for a few reasons:

  1.  I am not sure why it is not auto-populating the Computers list
  2.  When I click on the "…" button, it is listing all my computers without the $ sign.
  3.  I am not sure why this happened this time, and what I did wrong. More or less I have done the same thing before (replace an older machine with a newer one). I think the one thing I did different was that I deleted the old entry (with the $ sign) from WGM. My rationale was that the both the old computer and the newer computer were in WGM, so I thought I should clear them both out before rebuilding the newer machine.

So this has dropped down from being a big problem to a niggling one that I do not want to have repeat on my in the future. If anyone can shed any light on this, let me know :-)

Don

And have a good Xmas if this is my last correspondence for the year to you guys!

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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/computing/people/don.html
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From: Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:19:37 +0000
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: [MacTUG] Workgroup manager not forgetting deleted computer

Hi there
I am having a problem with workgroup manager and some juggling I have done with machines. I pulled a mac out of WGM as it was off to surplus and deleted its entry. I have brought a new machine in and ran deploystudio on it which does the golden triangle thing.

However its name (with the $ sign) does not appear in the list of computers. When I tried to add it manually it says "The name you have chosen conflicts with a name assigned to another computer…" and will not let me add it. From the WGM interface I cannot find the old computer anywhere, but its phantom lives on.

I really do not want to have to go and rename the client machine I am adding, particularly as I could see this problem eventually recurring as I surplus machines that are bound to WGM. What is weird is that I do not think this is the first time I have sent a machine to surplus and I have not ran into this before.

I am searching the web as we speak, but if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

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