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Setting up a simple NetInfo Heirarchy
Authored by: krove on Jul 23, '01 11:49:50AM

Anyone done this w/o using OS X Server?

I know that the netinfo commands avaiable in the CLI are available, and I attempted to start. The task, however, is much more complicated once you get into it. I want to create a domain such that a user can log into it and have their user folder mounted from the Server along with shared disks from other computers. I could set up each computer's local NetInfo db to mount a share and user folder, but that would seem redundant and pointless because each new computer that is added would have to be set. With a domain, I can just join the domain (using the Directory Setup app under /Applications/Utilities), and all the services like printers, shares, user folders are automatically there for the new user.

I've almost got it figured out, but this tutorial gives some instructions for manipulating NetInfo from the CLI, but the rest is using OS X Server admin apps.

For example, once the domain is created (for a simple heirarchy, the NetInfo tag must be "network") on the designated OS X machine - one needs to have a root user under that domain. How do you add that from the command line?

Also, there is a hint on how to automount nfs shares over the network, but what does an afp automount look like (what "opts" are necessary?) in the NetInfo Manager?



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Setting up a simple NetInfo Heirarchy
Authored by: Kevin Diffily on Oct 10, '01 11:46:47PM

It would be fantastic to have a tutorial how to for setting up a simple network without the OS X Server tools to share user information for username, passwords and how to log into a home or other directory. The capability is there but the specifics are not as far as I can see.



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