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Bind to OD Script & Add to Computer Group

by Patrick April 6, 2010 » Add more comments.

The following script is what I use to bind machines to Open Directory and it solves the following challenges: If bound to another OD domain, it removes that binding. If you’re not moving from another domain, you can ignore that part, it won’t hurt that it’s in there. Read more »

Add directory services data to LANDesk inventory

by Patrick March 27, 2010 » Add the first comment.

I posted over at the LANDesk community site on how I add AD and OD data to inventory, most of which LANDesk does not collect on it’s own. Much of this I did because we were moving from one OD domain to another and needed a way to see which Read more »

Can Open Directory be used enterprise wide?

by Patrick January 15, 2010 » Add the second comment.

A few years ago, before I started at my employer, a project was started for an enterprise-wide Open Directory setup. Each business unit within the university has a decent number of Macs that were mostly unmanaged. The project passed governance and a budget was set aside to fund the implementation. Read more »

Migrate Local User to Domain Account

by Patrick January 14, 2010 » Add more comments.

If you are migrating your machines to authenticate via Active Directory, you may need to convert your local user accounts and their home folders to an AD user account and retain the home folder. I had a script posted here but that version was Tiger only because it used NI* Read more »

Leopard Active Directory Integration Headaches

by Patrick January 27, 2009 » Add more comments.

Ever since Leopard came out, we have been having a heck of a time trying to get Leopard to bind and/or authenticate to Active Directory reliably. We use Active Directory sites and our Leopard macs were trying to authenticate to Domain Controllers in the wrong site. I’m reminded of Read more »

Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers

by Patrick January 24, 2009 » Add more comments.

Apple added a "feature" to Leopard which restricts non administrator users from managing printers on their Macs. While this is desired behavior on a public machine such as a classroom, it is a problem for single user machines such as faculty, staff and 1:1 deployments.

Securing SSH on Mac OS X by limiting who can log in

by Patrick January 23, 2009 » Add the second comment.

This post will describe two different methods for securing SSH that work on both Tiger and Leopard (client or server). These tips can be done as needed on machines that will have ssh enabled, or as part of your deployment image(s). Personally, I make these changes to our images because Read more »

slapd error in system.log every 10 seconds

by Patrick January 6, 2009 » Add more comments.

I had 2 Leopard servers (one with 10.5.5, one with 10.5.6), both displaying the following messages in the system.log every 10 seconds. com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd[283]): Exited with exit code: 1
com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Browser Market Shifting to Open Source?

by Patrick January 4, 2009 » Add the first comment.

News is spreading about the NetApplications report showing IE has dropped below 70% market share with Firefox taking just over 20% and Safari at over 7%. I must not have been paying attention because I was assuming IE still had 80-85%. Looks like we’re well on our way to having Open Source dominate browser usage

Bind to AD using Apple Remote Desktop

by Patrick September 2, 2007 » Add more comments.

Need to bind a handful of Macs to Active Directory remotely? There are a couple scripts online already, including one from MacEnterprise and from Bombich. But I’ve never been able to get those to work when using with ARD. Either the AD plugin wasn’t activated or AD wasn’t added to Read more »

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