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Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Beatlemike

Beatlemike — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:45:21 +0000

Do I maybe add the AD user AFTER i migrate the user folder? I thought I tried that and it stopped me from creating a user, but I might be wrong.

Comment on Bind to OD Script & Add to Computer Group by Donald

Donald — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:04:19 +0000

This looks helpful, but from first glance there seems to be some errors with you if / fi structure:

You have a three consecutive fi’s after the last “killall DirectoryService”, two of which have no corresponding if.

The line “else if [ "${check4AD}" == "All Domains" ]; then” has no corresponding if.

You have two fi’s before ‘ echo “Finished. Exiting…” ‘ that have no corresponding if.

To put it another way: You have only 6 if’s but 11 fi’s.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Beatlemike

Beatlemike — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:53:54 +0000

No it is a standard setup, but it just recreates the entire local home inside the mobile home. instead of replacing the contents

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:30:42 +0000

@Beatlemike
Do you have user folders in a non-standard location? Are you using Centrify or Likewise?

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Beatlemike

Beatlemike — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:22:33 +0000

No, sorry …. no I worded it wrong it is a mobile home…. the osx kind, not the kind in a trailer park.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:19:50 +0000

@Beatlemike

This wasn’t intended for use with network homes. If you are running this on your home directory server, you will have to modify it with the correct path to your home folders. This script assumes /Users

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Beatlemike

Beatlemike — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:15:53 +0000

Hi Patrick, awesome job on this by the way. Just one problem, I keep ending up with the original user folder now IN my network user folder, alongside the network profile folders.

Any idea what is up?

Thanks!

Comment on Bind to Active Directory Applescript by Richard

Richard — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:58:52 +0000

Interesting Note, in 10.4 and earlier (as long as the right ARD client version is installed) systemsetup still resides in /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/contents/Support/

10.5 and later systemsetup resides in /usr/sbin

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:17:23 +0000

@Richard

Have you tried using quotes instead? It would be easier to quote the shortname.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Richard

Richard — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:04:31 +0000

This script works great until I’m on a 10.4 computer using a firstname.lastname login convention. 10.4 command line doesn’t handle the . well. I find that I’ve had to manually do the mv and chown but escape the . with a \. Is there a way to get your script to escape the . when used in a username? In the end I use sudo mv oldname firstname\.lastname then sudo chown -R firstname\.lastname:staff firstname\.lastname.