Clients are now showing me a Mac OSX Server login screen

[Greenbeast]

As above really, was just on the verge of having these machines working correctly with AD (network drives and authentication) and OD (settings) and when i restarted them they've now all got a Mac OSX Server login window.

 

Why would this be?

How can i fix it?

 

Help really appreciated!

[rbelson]

have you got a screen shot?

[Greenbeast]

I will sort one out this morning

[Greenbeast]

This is what i'm seeing on my clients

 

[FN-GM]

Do you have NetBoot enabled on the server? What version of OSX is it?

[Greenbeast]

No, i have NetInstall enabled but not NetBoot, 10.6.8

[round2it]

do you have auto login disabled

 

 

 

No, i have NetInstall enabled but not NetBoot, 10.6.8

[Greenbeast]

Yes pretty sure i have.

 

I'm now re-imaging the machines, so we'll have to see if the same problem occurs later today.

[Greenbeast]

Right, i reimaged them, added them to AD, then to OD.

At this point i was able to log in and access shared network drives and the users windows home drive.

 

I then sent out a package for iLife '08 and restarted them.

 

Now i'm back to the originally stated problem, the Server login screen.

I can't believe the iLife package has caused this but thought i'd mention it as that's the only thing that changed between the stations working and not working.

[SC92]

You didn't create/edit the disc image on the mac osx server did you?

[rbelson]

My guess would be that a netrestore set was created using System Image Utility on the server using the server's HD as the source and not a client Mac's HD

[Greenbeast]

I don't have any images of the server whatsoever, i've created a total of three, two from workstations and one for a macbook, i've since deleted the duplicate workstation image.

 

Also the machine does not do this unless i bind to AD/OD. They stay sitting with a normal login screen until i bind them, then some short while later if i restart they get the server login screen.

They then fail to use AD accounts, but as tested late yesterday can use OD accounts.

If i unplug the Mac server from the network they then fail to log on at all unless locally.

[Greenbeast]

Ok i might be getting somewhere.

 

Just realised my iLife 08 package wasn't installed on this machine i was tinkering with (and was behaving itself), so i rolled it out from ARD and restarted and bam! the issue presented itself.

 

Then i realised i created the iLife package on the server.