Mac Admin Affinity Group Meeting
June 16, 2006

Attendees:

Departments
Chris Dalansky, Cylab
Marc Siskin, ModLang

Computing Services
David Baisley
Jeff Eaton
Jim Foraker
Stephen Hathorne
Mike Kelleher
Laura Valentine

Notes:

Marc - Apple Mail - we're using it because there's no installation.
Mike - there's a problem with Spotlight trying to index bboards if you use Apple Mail, but you can fix that in the advanced account settings

Chris - we have 2-3 users with Mac Intel laptops, and about 10 PCs.  We are looking for backup solutions for network backups.

-SuperDuper (may have scalability issues)
-Intego Backup x4 is also not scalable
-Retrospect is good for mixed environments
-Stephen - TimeNavigator - centralized backup solution, but not yet 
available - will be cost recovery.
-More info available in  affinity group notes from last time

Marc - solutions for imaging multiple machines?

-Jim - we're using a netboot/network image solution.  It's probably not 
worth it for a small number of computers.
-Multicasting
-radmind - www.radmind.org

David - notes on ADmitMac/DFS integration

-crossrealm single sign-on is not working yet, but you can get around 
this by syncing your AD password and your Andrew password
-There was a problem with passwords being sent in the clear, but the 
latest update should solve that
-NTLMv2 Auth
-Lets you use AD groups for administration, so lessens need for local 
admining

Various applications
- Marc - has a copy of Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) 3 - the Automator actions are nice http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
- Mike likes Launchbar, which is an application launcher (similar to
Quicksilver)

Jim - issues with Spotlight in clusters
-If you are having issues with Spotlight in a multiuser environment, it 
can be shut down in /etc/hosts/config - you can turn off & on things like network mounts.