Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 494)

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Some older client computers require BootP for getting an IP address assignment when using
NetBoot. (See “Network Requirements” on page 488 for a list of Macintosh computers that
require BootP.) When this is the case, you must make sure that only one server on the
network to which those clients are attached is configured to supply BootP addressing.
Because this may impact your ability to implement a load balancing strategy, you may want to
set up a separate subnet for these clients, as described in the next step. For more information
about providing load balancing for NetBoot clients see “Load Balancing” on page 504.
Depending on the results of your evaluation in step 1, you may want to add servers or hard
disks, add Ethernet ports, or make other changes to your servers, and you may want to set
up one or more subnets for your BootP clients, depending on the number of BootP clients
that you have.
You may also want to implement subnets on this server (or other servers) in order to take
advantage of NetBoot filtering. See “Filtering NetBoot Client Connections” on page 503.
If you plan to provide personalized work environments for NetBoot clients by using
Workgroup Manager (Mac OS X clients) and Macintosh Manager (Mac OS 9 clients), you
should set this up and import users from the Mac OS X Server Users & Groups database
before you create disk images. Make sure you have at least one Macintosh Manager user
assigned to the System Access workgroup for Mac OS 9 clients and the Workgroup Manager
for Mac OS X clients. See Chapter 6, “Client Management: Mac OS X,” on page 267 and
Chapter 10, “Client Management: Mac OS 9 and OS 8,” on page 411.
If you plan to provide authentication and personalized work environments for NetBoot client
users by using Workgroup Manager (Mac OS X clients) and Macintosh Manager (Mac OS 9
clients), you should set this up and import users from the Mac OS X Server Users & Groups
database before you create disk images. Make sure you have at least one Macintosh Manager
user assigned to the System Access workgroup for Mac OS 9 clients and the Workgroup
Manager for Mac OS X clients. See Chapter 6, “Client Management: Mac OS X,” and
Chapter 10, “Client Management: Mac OS 9 and OS 8.”
Step 2: Create disk images for client computers
You can set up both Mac OS 9 disk images and Mac OS X disk images for client computers to
start up from. A preconfigured Mac OS 9 image is supplied with Mac OS X Server on the
NetBoot, Mac OS 9 CD. The Mac OS 9 disk image can be modified. If you are supporting new
client computers that were released after this version of Mac OS X Server, you will need to
modify the Mac OS 9 disk image to support the new clients. See “Modifying the Mac OS 9
Disk Image” on page 498.
To create Mac OS X disk images, you use Network Image Utility. See “Creating a Mac OS X
Disk Image” on page 496.