Posted this on the Resource Kit newsletter as well.
I was directed by Jamf support to attempt this forum.
Here's the situation: I'm not able to use an SMB Distribution Point (DP)
which is on a Windows 2003 R2 joined to an Active Directory 2008 domain;
using the Jamf server as a DP [via AFP] works fine.
For more oddity, I will escape out of the Casper Imaging tool during
Netboot and open the Full Finder. I will then try to connect via
command-k and put in smb://[ip address] or smb://[ip address]/ or
smb://[ip address]/[Share name] and it will not prompt me for a
credential and give me an error indicating "Incorrect password", if I
try to use an AFP share (afp://[ip address] or afp://[ip address]/ or
afp://[ip address]/CasperSuite, I get "an error occurred -50". If I
boot to a normal OS X operating system and try any of these, it will
prompt me for credentials, I supply them and it connects. While in the
NetInstall/Netboot environment, if I do a Full Finder and use Terminal,
it appears I'm logged in as root. So why, can't I seem to use any other
DPs other than the one during the actual imaging process?
The steps I've gone through are as follows:
- Created distribution point on the DP:
a. Set DNS Name or IP address to the NT's IP address under General
b. Set the Connection Type as SMB, Share name to the share name
[cased properly]
c. Set the Port to 139 while testing SMB or 548 for AFP
d. Tried both putting the NT server into a Workgroup and domain and
put in the Workgroup name or the domain's NetBIOS name
I created a plain OS X 10.5.7 OS on a second partition on a
MacBook Pro
Used Composer 7.0 to create an OS.dmg file
Used NetInstaller 3.0 to create a Casper.nbi Netboot image and
set the Casper Imaging.app file
Copied it into my Netboot directory on the OS X server
Another MacBook Pro will NetBoot [using the newly created OS]
If I use an SMB DP, it will say it's mounting the DP, says it's
erasing the hard drive (which actually doesn't) and then tries to
execute the Bulk Copy of the OS Image and immediately goes to the next
step.
I have tried several combinations of creating a local and domain account
as the one specified in the DP setting screen (and even one called root
with and without a password), had the NT server joined and put into a
Workgroup, specified the workgroup or domain name.
It just seems like no part of the NetInstall/Netboot environment will
take a DP other than one which might be running an actual OS X server.
I even went as far as trying ExtremeZ IP on the NT machine and got the
same error while in Finder in the NetInstall/Netboot environment as when
I tried to command-K to the Apple server.
What am I missing for setting up DPs which are Windows 2003 servers
joined to a 2008 Active Directory domain?
Thanks!
