[UniMacTech] LDAP users with NetInfo groups in Workgroup manager 10.4.4

[Nigel Kersten]

On 2008 3 6, at 18:32, Darryl Rosin wrote:

> For the first time, I've had to start managing some local groups on  
> OS X Server with user accounts coming from an Novell eDirectory.  
> There are Posix extensions in the eDir's LDAP schema but not the  
> full set of MCX stuff.
>
> when I drag the users into the group Members pane everything is  
> fine, I see the Name , the GUID and the Shortname of the users. But  
> after I quit and relaunch, WGM says "not found" for the name and  
> leaves the shortname blank. GUID is still there, but that's of  
> little help to me trying to identifying users. Everthing appears to  
> be working OK other than that.
>
> Any idea what's causing this? And How I might fix or work around it?

Can you get away with doing a nested group instead? Do the Novell  
eDirectory groups at least have GUIDs ? If they do, then you should be  
able to set a Novell group as the member of a local group.