Connect 10.9 to a 10.6 directory

I'm having issues binding my 10.9 server to my 10.6 server which hosts open directory. On the 10.9 server I can add my 10.6 LDAP directory in directory utility.app, but none of my users from 10.6 are visible in the server.app on my 10.9 machine. I know I can't set up the 10.9 server as a replica with the 10.6 server, but I was under the impression that I could connect to the directory on the 10.6 server to provide authentication services. Is this possible, or am I doing somthing wrong.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Finally got it working. Disregard this post.

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Let tell you what I did.
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Authenticating as principal root/admin@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E with password.
K/M@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
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cifs/LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B4 76438CF685295A959757D8541E
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kadmin/changepw@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
kadmin/history@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
kadmin/mail.lgusd.k12.ca.us@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
krbtgt/LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494 B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
lgadmin@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
root@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E
vnc/LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B476438CF685295A959757D8541E@LKDC:SHA1.763D1FDFF494B47 6438CF685295A959757D8541E
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Authenticating as principal root/[email protected] with password.
HTTP/[email protected]
HTTP/[email protected]
K/[email protected]
XMPP/[email protected]
XMPP/[email protected]
afpserver/[email protected]
afpserver/[email protected]
cifs/[email protected]
cifs/[email protected]
[email protected]
ftp/[email protected]
ftp/[email protected]
host/[email protected]
host/[email protected]
http/[email protected]
http/[email protected]
imap/[email protected]
imap/[email protected]
ipp/[email protected]
ipp/[email protected]
kadmin/[email protected]
kadmin/[email protected]
kadmin/[email protected]
kadmin/[email protected]
krbtgt/[email protected]
ldap/[email protected]
ldap/[email protected]
nfs/[email protected]
nfs/[email protected]
[email protected]
pop/[email protected]
pop/[email protected]
[email protected]
smtp/[email protected]
smtp/[email protected]
vpn/[email protected]
vpn/[email protected]
[email protected]
xgrid/[email protected]
xgrid/[email protected]
xmpp/[email protected]
xmpp/[email protected]
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mickey13 wrote:
I have 2 Apple servers. One is running 10.6 (server), the other is running 10.5 (server). I have my Open Directory on the 10.6 server, and I have the 10.5 server use it via LDAP for user authentication. What I'd like to do is to assign a home directory on the 10.5 server for users in the 10.6 Open Directory. Any ideas?
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Home Sharing, served on this Mini, will cease to be visible from elsewhere in the house (AppleTVs lose it).
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The App Store says 'can't connect.'
iTunes will say it can't connect to the ITMS.
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'traceroute cisco.com' works fine - resolves DNS, traceroutes out across the internet, no problems.
'ping <IP address of NAS>' - works fine.
'dig <name>' - works fine.
pinging the gateway (the router airport) works fine.
Also:
Other Macs in the house (on wired OR wireless, connected to any of the AirPorts including the same one as the Mini) work fine.
Other Macs can see the NAS connected to that same AirPort fine.
iOS devices in the house connected to any AirPort work fine.
netstat -r shows what look to be proper routes - i.e. the default gateway is the router address (10.0.1.1) and the route to 10.0.1.1 is shown to be the MAC address of the router's Ethernet interface (anyway, as I mentioned above, network stuff from the shell works fine<!?!??!
Steps tried:
Turning off ipv6 - nope.
Applying all firmware/software updates (OS X 10.6.8) - nope.
Tried manually setting DNS to Google public DNS servers - nope. Those work fine, and are still set when the network drops out, and then don't work, nor does setting new DNS servers in the Network prefpane.
Logging out/back in - nope.
Restarting the computer: YES. This works, all three times this has happened (all this week). Serious PITA.
I tried going through the system log, but I don't see anything notable that changes or is logged when the network connection drops.
Every time the connection has stopped working, the computer *has* slept at some point since it was last known working, but if I sleep the computer manually, everything seems fine.
.....waaaaaaaah! Help, this one is making me crazy. :-) Thanks. I'm terminal-savvy, and fairly OS X savvy.

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Next you will need to change ownership of the files just copied (ex: chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist and chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponderHelper.plist)
Then, you will need to set correct permissions (ex: chmod -R 755 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist and chmod -R 755 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist)
The last thing you'll want to do is to verify that the ownership of the files copied is set to system (and maybe wheel) using "Get Info." (Conversely, you can use ls -l /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist to verify owner and permissions.)
You should not have to restart to connect immediately to the internet.

Windows 7 client can't connect to Server 2008 R2 Print Server VM (ESXi 5.5)

I have an issue today that is driving me bonkers.
I recently came on-board to a company in my area as the system administrator and this network has everything and the kitchen sink wrong with the network layout, probably the worst I've seen and I'm slowly but surely fixing it day by day.....
Well today I decided I was going to spin up another VM from a template and make a Print Server, seems harmless right? --- I thought so too, added all of the printers to the server and did test pages, all was dandy, but then I tried to add the printers to
clients and other server and the real fun has begun, I'm truly perplexed now...
I added a VM to my esxi 5.5 cluster at work that is a 2008 R2 server with only print management on it. I can map all of the printers on the network to the print server as-well as install the drivers correctly and I can resolve the IP and server name via
DNS. I can test printers directly from the print server successfully printing out test pages however whenever I try to map printers you know from the directory in 'devices and printers' from any of the Windows 7 clients or any of the other 2003/2008 servers
I get the classical "Windows cannot connect please check the network connection and make sure sure the printer is turned on". I disabled the windows firewall and I made the point to print GPO set to disabled and still no luck. Again I can print to
all of the printers internally inside of the VM (so I know it communicating to all of the printers), I just can't connect to the printers listed in the directory on any of external desktop/client, it's like so annoying. spent about 6 hours until my brain just
couldn't think anymore, was about to go BS on the VM.
The only thing I can think of, as I was driving home, is that there is a GPO on one of the DC that has a desginated print server policy set. But prior to last week the forest leve was 2000 and now it's 2003. I just don't know Server 2000 enough to know if GPO's
worked in the same way they do in 2003.
Right now printers are connected to other servers in a ad hoc mentality it seems, there has never been a true print server.
Anyone ever have this problem before?
I'm truly puzzled...

Hi Mid.Hudson-IT,
Before we begin ,we should ensure we have configured the printer server correctly .
Here is a link for reference of configuring the printer server .
Print server role: Configuring a print server
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775791(v=ws.10).aspx
"I can map all of the printers on the network to the print server as-well as install the drivers correctly and I can resolve the IP and server name via DNS"
From this sentence ,I can`t figure out whether you have tried to ping the server both with the IP adress and name adress from the client ?
If we can ping the print server from the client,we can ensure the connection to the printer server is good .
Then we can try to install the printer driver directly to have a check .In the adress bar of Windows Explorer ,input "\\server name \the printer name"
If we cannot ping the print server ,we should troubleshoot the network issue firstly.
We also can check the event viewer for more information to troubleshoot this issue .
Best regards

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