Is there a specific, location for the images after they are created with the image utility, because when I go to select the image in the netboot settings, there are no images there to mount. I believe I have set the share points correctly, I have created a netboot image and a netinstall image an neither has shown up in the list to be used as a.
That's a big question Debbie. I'm not a training sales person, but I am an Apple Certified Trainer and I'd strongly recommend going on the Apple 'Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.4' training course. This will teach you everything you'd need to know. Since Mac OS X Server v10.2 and v10.3, things changed dramatically - meaning Apple server administrators need to know a lot more than they did before. Apple had to develop training courses to fulfil this.
I will try to advise as best I can within this limit medium.
You need to be running an Open Directory Master (LDAP). To do this, you must first ensure you have both forward and reverse DNS setup for your server's hostname and IP address. Study the Tiger version of the Open Directory admin guide for help with this.
Next Workgroup Manager must be creating your accounts in LDAP and not in NetInfo's local node.
Macintosh Manager for Mac OS X is called MCX (Managed Client X).
your client systems need to be 'integrated' with LDAP. There are a number of ways of achieving this. Manually this is done by configuring the LDAPv3 plug-in in the Directory Access utility on your client systems.
It really gets more complicated than this. You're probably going to have to spend a lot of time teaching yourself this. The Apple course would probably speed things along a lot.
More free advice is out there... make sure you read through Apple's Tiger server docs at http://www.apple.com/server/documentation
Good luck!
I will try to advise as best I can within this limit medium.
You need to be running an Open Directory Master (LDAP). To do this, you must first ensure you have both forward and reverse DNS setup for your server's hostname and IP address. Study the Tiger version of the Open Directory admin guide for help with this.
Next Workgroup Manager must be creating your accounts in LDAP and not in NetInfo's local node.
Macintosh Manager for Mac OS X is called MCX (Managed Client X).
your client systems need to be 'integrated' with LDAP. There are a number of ways of achieving this. Manually this is done by configuring the LDAPv3 plug-in in the Directory Access utility on your client systems.
It really gets more complicated than this. You're probably going to have to spend a lot of time teaching yourself this. The Apple course would probably speed things along a lot.
More free advice is out there... make sure you read through Apple's Tiger server docs at http://www.apple.com/server/documentation
Good luck!
Netboot Mac Os
Network Disk Image Types. System Image Utility creates three types of network disk images: A standard NetBoot image provides a typical computing experience, albeit one that is hosted from a NetBoot server. When started from a NetBoot image the Mac operates nearly identically to a locally booted Mac. As discussed in Part 1, System Image Utility is included with Mac OS X Server and offers the option of directly saving images to the configured NetBoot share points. Creating a NetBoot image. The NetBoot server will filter a NetBoot image from the list returned to the client if: The client's MAC address is specifically forbidden from accessing images on the server (NetBoot filters) The NetBoot image does not support the architecture of the client machine; The NetBoot image is not enabled for the machine model.
Netboot Mac Os X Server
Nov 3, 2005 11:11 AM