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There are other options besides an Xserve. It depends on how many macs you have to manage and how reasonable you want the price to be:) You could modify your AD schema to include the attributes for management of OS X clients. This is free but a bit daunting for most admins. If you only have a handful of macs, then you could use a Mac Mini server instead of an Xserve, this will be substantially cheaper but performance will not be as good. Another option is to install some 3rd party software such as Centrify, this allows management of OS X clients from AD. It's licensed per mac client so can get pricey if you have lots of macs. More info and a 30 day trial from here. Centrify DirectControl Overview Sammy

You can use something like installease or casper composer to make a package from a Logic install. Installease is free, more info on how it works and download from here Package Building: Absolute Manage - Automated Client Management for Mac and Windows Computers and Software Casper Composer isn't free, details here JAMF Software: Products - Composer Both apps are part of larger suites, that allow management of OS X clients, software updates, licence management that kind of thing. The installer you create can then be deployed using Apple Remote Desktop or deploystudio.

If you have another mac lying around, then you could try the following. connect a firewire cable between the 2 macs put the new drive in the macbook, then boot it whilst holding down the T key, this put the machine in target disk mode. The other mac will now see the macbook just like an external firewire drive. The new HDD should be seen in disk util on the 2nd mac, you can now format it in disk utility or even install the OS from a 2nd mac. This does depend on having another mac though. this kb article has more info on FW target mode How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode Sammy

Haven't tried it in a while but AFAIK this is the method to bypass the firmware password. Sammy

fawkers as bladedanny says, you can turn on the firmware password on the mac, knowledgebase article here Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X this stops anyone from booting from CD without the firmware password. So should fix your security hole. You can however, reset the firmware password by changing the RAM configuration, adding or removing a DIMM, so it's not ideal! Sammy

File Salvage has got back deleted files for me before, costs $90 though. FileSalvage - Mac OS X Data Recovery, Undelete Files, Rescue Lost Data

not to bang on about DNS, but what is resolving the query? A windows server? or the Xserve? Do you have a .local domain? 10.6 creates it's own DNS to resolve itself when you initially set it up. This can conflict with a .local Can you post a screen grab of your DNS config from server admin - if any and also your network sys prefs?

So, there are no error messages, just a slow down in WGM. Are there any repeating messages in the system.log or AppleFileServices.log? does this happen with AFP and SMB running or just 1 service?

Couple of questions, is this server an OD master? is there a DNS record configured for the server? check that forward and reverse lookups work. What address are you connecting to when you open workgroup manager? the IP address, local host name or DNS address. WGM can be a bit funny if you don't use the DNS address.

You could try using Deploy Studio to get the image onto a machine. This can either be run across a network if you have an apple server or from an external drive if not. Deploystudio runs a cleanup script after imaging. Not sure off the contents at the moment, I'm writing this on my phone, but it goes a bit further than just deleting and recreating the KDC. Hopefully this will sort out the AD binding issue. Sammy

Wow! another of those undocumented additional features in 10.6. I'm uninstalling NTFS-3G right now. Thanks.

Assuming you've formatted the boot camp partition as NTFS, you will need NTFS-3G to write to it from the mac OS, it's free and available here NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver If you want to read and write to the mac partition when in Windows, you'll need some software like Macdrive which is commercial, Mediafour | MacDrive or Catacombae - HFSExplorer which is free but i've not tested it. If you have Snow Leopard, the 10.6 version of bootcamp supports read-only access of your mac volume from windows.

Hi everybody, I'm an IT consultant working for a large Apple Reseller. Someone showed me the forum and i thought i would pop in and see what problems you guys are having with Macs in school networks. We've done a lot of work on this over the last few years. Hope you don't mind me not working for an education establishment! I am a geek though!!