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CHAPTER
2
2 NetInfo Planning
The goal of NetInfo planning is to design a hierarchy of NetInfo domains that gives your
Mac OS X users easy access to the network resources they need and minimizes the time you
spend maintaining NetInfo data.
This chapter provides information that will help you decide what your NetInfo hierarchy
should look like. It presents some general planning considerations, then focuses on issues
related to distributing user and group information among NetInfo domains.
General Planning Guidelines
If you do not need to share user and resource information among multiple Mac OS X
computers, very little NetInfo planning is necessary. Everything can be accessed from local
NetInfo domains. Just ensure that all individuals who need to use a particular Mac OS X
computer are defined as users in the local NetInfo domain on the computer.
Local
NetInfo
domain
Local
NetInfo
domain
Log in to
Mac OS X
Connect to
Mac OS
X Server