RE: OD and ...
I've been trying to use ML server in a small business to support 6 iMacs and 8 networked user accounts.
Directory services frequently become unstable causing the inability for users to login. I've had to reinstall everything 3 times so far.
I've had 3 separate mac consultants come out to try to fix it. No go.
I've given up on ML Server and am going back to just having individual accounts on each machine. Even though maintaining all these separate user accounts is a bit of pain, its more reliable.
Hi mille1j,
Sorry you've had such a bad experience with ML Server. While it is not designed for large systems, a small system with only 6 iMacs should work fine. It turns out that networked accounts via OD are fairly sensitive to things being setup properly, especially the DNS first, certificates, etc. Are you trying to Kerberize your OD? OD is one of the more difficult services to configure correctly. I know that the 10.6.8 Server works for a small business with 1 Mac mini, 3 iMacs, 5 cMBPs, 1 rMBP, 2 MBAs, 1 iPad, 5 iPhones, 3 iPod touches, 1 AppleTV3, 3 wireless n routers, a couple laser printers, a couple ethernet gigabit switches plus two NASes and a RAID disk running pretty much all of the Server services including DHCP, DNS, OD with Kerberos, VPN, Software Update, Profile Manager, Time Machine, Web and Wiki servers, Mail, Calendar, and Contacts with about a dozen user accounts. I mention this just as an example of the Server.app working for a small system -- in other words, the OS X Server will work for small systems. While it is meant to be "turnkey" simple, I don't believe any server software is truly turnkey unfortunately.
Sorry about your troubles,
Switon