Is it possible to have a Mac bind to a second directory?
My 10.6 server has just gone down and it is going to take a while to be replaced. It was acting as a PDC for a bunch of XP clients so I need it back. It was also providing DCHP, DNS, open directory AFP and a bunch of other services to a few iMacs.
I need a temp solution whilst I wait for the 10.6 server to return to life. None of my users have files they need crossing over or saving, but I have a copy of OD I can use from the broken server, so my users can still login and get online.
Would this work:
Make a copy of OD. Create a second server with all of the services i need and have the iMacs bind to it, keeping the first server settings in its records.
Then when the replacement server shows up, turn the second off and delete it from the iMacs.
Also is there anything I would need to worry about?
I'm not entirely sure I follow your reasoning, but I can tell you that you can bind to mulitple directory servers. The specifics depend on which OS version the clients are running on - later OS versions have an option in System Preferences -> Users & Groups, whereas earlier versions used Directory Access.app.
The concept is simple - add multiple directory servers to the list. They'll be tried in order until one server responds with a valid login for the specified user. So if you have Server1 and Server2 in that order, the client will query server1 for the user credentials. If not found it'll roll over to server2. If all your records exist in server1 then server2 would never be queried, and to roll your users back to server2 just delete their account on server1, or turn off directory services on server1 so that all the queries go to server2
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