--- Forwarded Message from "Kanig, David" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: Deployment strategy: Intel Mac machines + OS X + Windows + Active Directory >Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:55:47 -0500 >Thread-Topic: Deployment strategy: Intel Mac machines + OS X + Windows + Active Directory >Thread-Index: Acg190KpU4IqQV/dQTyPkv0rflnJhg== >From: "Kanig, David" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> I'm trying to determine a basic strategy for deploying a single image on multiple Intel Macs that will: (1) run OS X and Win XP, not necessarily simultaneously; and (2) enable binding to Active Directory for both OS X and Win XP I believe that requirement (2) means that I cannot use NetBoot, because AD will not allow multiple Windows clients to have a single computer name (though AD will allow multiple OS X machines to do so). If this is *not* true, I would very much appreciate learning how NetBoot can be used with an image that includes Windows bound to AD. I have tried unsuccessfully to distribute from a FireWire box an image of OS X 10.4 running Parallels and Win XP: I used CCC to create on a bootable FireWire box an ASR disk image of a prototype machine. Booting each lab machine from the FireWire box, I used NetRestore to propagate that image (and I planned to use DeepFreeze to hold the machines in stasis). I renamed each machine manually in both OS X System Prefs and in Windows > Control Panel > Computer, and then attempted to bind both operating systems to AD. However, once bound, Windows crashed consistently on restart. This brings me to attempting to use Boot Camp + Win XP, propagated by FireWire box. Early experiments have failed, because CCC fails to take up an image of the prototype Boot Camp machine: "There was an error during copying .HFS+ Private Directory Data from source to target: ditto: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/.HFS+ Private Directory Data: No such file or directory Would you like to ignore this error or stop?" Could this error be due to the presence of a Windows partition on the machine? Folks, please advise. have you been able to get OS X and Windows, plus authentication to AD for both, on multiple machines? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Kanig Manager, Technical Services Language Resource Center Brown University Providence, RI 02912 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************