On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:44 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 12-Apr-2010, at 20:09, objectwerks inc wrote: >> >> On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: >>> It is presented as an option but is still greyed out even after >>> authenticating. >> >> Which means it is not presented as an option. >> >> Dan is right on this one. He did not say there is no mention of the GUI, he >> said " It's not presented as an option in the GUI. " If you cannot select >> it, it is not an option. > > It's also listed in the workgroup manager, but EVERYTHING there was greyed > out. > > This wasn't my machine, and I think the person did not have a Directory > Server setup because we were not able to make any changes to anything in the > Workgroup Manager and there was nothing listed in the 'globe' drop down other > than the local share.
There's always Directory Server and WGM can operate in both local and networked domains. What you may mean was that only the local domain is being used for accounts, but this makes no difference to not being able to select users from a drop down list in loginwindow. > Interestingly, logging in to OSXServer as a user it looks and acts just like > OS X. "Looks" being the operative word. loginwindow is, of course the same. Users should not be logging into the console of a server, and if they do presenting potentially thousands of users in a list would not only be prohibitive, but due to how info about them must be captured to be used by loginwindow the potential latency to gather this would be prohibitive. > Logging in to the admin it was like a completely different OS. It's the same OS. > I though I'd be able to suss some stuff out and help her out, but no… > nothing, I was like a lost kitten. :) What is it you're trying to do? If it's "enable users from a pull down in loginwindow under OS X Server" that's not supported. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop Computer Scientist [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
