Why do I have to have a domain name with Lion Server?
If I have just a small local network of macs and windows clients all under one roof do I have to have a domain name? Everything in the tutorials and looking through old posts seems to indicate that Lion Server works better if I use a domain name for my network. Pro and cons for a network newbie like myself please?
Thanks,
Tony
Directory Services like Apple's Open Directory or Microsoft's Active Directory use a domain name server to support running such a service. Therefore if your going to run Open Directory (in your case) you need to run a DNS server and use a domain name. The domain name does not have to be a real one but using your own real one is often easier because -
You can be confident it is not conflicting with anyone else
It can make later setting up email and web servers easier
You could however use a fake domain like fakedomain.private and then your server would have an entry like server.fakedomain.private
I would advise using Open Directory (and hence a domain) as even if now you could get away without this on a small network, hopefully your organisation will continue to grow and might need this later. Doing it now saves changing it all later when it will be more hard work.
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On 6/4/2012 11:16 AM, rengelha wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to change the domain name from eg ".vancouver.gov" to
> ".vancouver.local" on all of our devices in the network. Zcm has been
> installed with ".vancouver.gov" and the clients also are registered with
> ".vancouver.gov". When i change the domain name on the workstations and
> change the corresponding dns entries of the workstations to
> ".vancouver.gov" i cannot register workstations anymore and wol does not
> work anymore. Distributing applications to the workstation does work.
>
> Anybody now how to accomplish this change.
>
> We have about 400 workstations and 1 zcm 10.3.3 server.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ren�
>
>
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