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I've already recieved a bit of help from this fourm, but I ask again that you guys can help me out so this can finally get this done.

My school has recently purchased 12 new eMacs and set up a media lab for them, and I need to set up the server for it. There is one special (Read: faster) eMac set aside with a larger hardrive as the main server machine. There is also a 200GB external HD that we are using to store information (basically whatever people save). I've already installed OS X Server 10.4 on the main machine, but from here, I'm a little confused. I'd like to try and get it so that any student on a networked computer can log in with their account and access their information through the server HD. I've already been able to get a computer to boot from the network using NetBoot, however it was only an install image. After, I tried using an image of a fresh install of OS X Tiger as a startup image, however, it will not show up under the list startup disks for the student computer that will need to be able to log in.

I'm not sure if this matters, but the school already has an IBM server set up with Windows machines around the school, so a DHCP has already been set up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-Jonas
 
So you want to use account login information stored on the eMac?

First and foremost, be sure you have proper forward and reverse DNS. Then promote your Open Directory from Standalone to Open Directory Master. Create the accounts you wish to have and, if you want to have the home directories to reside on the server, place the home directory URL to the right location. Use Directory Access on the client machines to bind into the OD using the LDAPv3 plugin.

:)
 
Go3iverson: Thank you for your reply, however, I am still having trouble getting a login screen to appear on the client computer. It will only boot into the OSX that is already installed on the local hard drive, rather than booting to the OSX Tiger image on the server computer.

I have set my Open Directory to Open directory master.

Thanks for all your help.
 
OH, so your trying to do a NetBoot? Meaning, the system image sits on the server and then your desktop clients actually boot off of that image, not using the internal drive?

What media kit are you using to create your NetBoot image? You'll want to use the generic Tiger retail DVD, take an image of that machine, when your done, using System Image Utility with the machine your trying to image booted in Target Disk Mode, export it to your NetBoot server, enable the image and go from there.
 
Go3iverson: I believe I have done what you have stated in your post. Let me go over the steps I have done to see if I have made a mistake.

First, I installed a fresh copy of OS X Tiger onto a formatted partition of a hard drive. Then, I placed that client computer into target disk mode, and used the Imaging Utility that comes with OS X Server to image that hard drive. I saved it in the proper NetBoot Folder (the same place where I had saved an install image). However, when I enable the image from the System Admin, and reboot the client computer, I can not access the image. The image of the install disk I made previously will show up if I enable it, but any disk image that I want to boot from will not be an option. If I try to do a network boot, it will either boot to the install image, if it is enabled, or flash an error if it is not.

Are there any steps here that I am doing incorrectly? Again, thank you for your help.
 
okay, i have been trying the open directory way of doing it. i would like to know how to properly set up my forward/reverse DNS. i have tried entering the domain name on the client computer to bind it in directory access but i keep getting "invalid domain" an invalid domain and forest combinations was specified. you should enter a fully qualified DNS name for the domain and forest (e.g. ads.company.com). have DNS on and set the domain to jonas.local
i think my problem is with my forward/reverse DNS, because i have no clue on how to do that or how it works, any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
 
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