Okay, I have some odd behavior here, wondering if anyone else has seen the
same thing. If so, were you able to resolve it?
I have setup a nice, clean Mac OS X v10.5.7 base install image...fully
patched and updated, with only and Administrator account. I can create and
deploy the DMG to machines with no problem.
Here's where my issue comes in. Over the summer, we have roughly 300
teachers on laptops who bring their machines in to have them reimaged with
Casper. However, before we do that reimage, we are nice enough backup and
reinstall their data for them. The process as it stands right now, is that
they bring their laptop with v10.4.11 installed to us, and using Migration
Assistant (over the network - with a network cable between the 2 machines)
we migrate it to a second laptop with v10.5.7 on it. This works no
problem. Their v10.4.11 laptop is then wiped and imaged with Casper to
bring them up to v10.5.7, and install all applications. We then want to
run Migration Assistant (again via the network - with a network cable
between the 2 machines) again to bring the data from that second laptop to
the original laptop, both of which are running versions of v10.5.7 that
have been installed via Casper. This migration fails, as Migration
Assistant only recognizes the the Administator account, despite the fact
that the user account and data exists that second laptop. No other
accounts are recognized, thus no data can be migrated.
As a test I have installed and updated Mac OS X v10.5.7 on two machines
from the install DVD, created Administator accounts on both boxes, and
setup a Test account on one fo the machines to migrate, and in that case,
Migration Assistant works just fine. It recognizes the Test account and
migrates data over without issue.
To be safe, I recreated the v10.5.7 DMG to make sure there were no issues
with my base OS, that didn't resolve my issue. So at this point, I am
wondering if there is something with Composer creating the OS Package, or
something in the deployment of the OS via Casper Imaging. It seems to be
something that is happening between those two points.
Anyone seen anything like this? Or more importantly, been able to resolve
it?
Thanks,
Steve
--
Steven Diver, Network Manager
Adlai E. Stevenson High School / www.d125.org
Email: sdiver at d125.org / Phone: 847.415.4304
"Be not simply good, be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
