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PREFACE
About This Document
What’s in This Document
If you’re a system or network administrator whose responsibilities include Mac OS X
administration, this document will help you understand and implement NetInfo.
NetInfo is the directory system that is built into computers running Mac OS X and Mac OS X
Server. NetInfo facilitates the management of administrative information used by Mac OS X
computers.
For example, NetInfo lets you centralize information about users, printers, servers, and other
network devices so that all Mac OS X computers on your network, or only some of them,
have access to it. It helps you set up and manage home directories for Mac OS X users on
multiple, integrated Mac OS X Servers. And it simplifies the day-to-day management of
administrative information by letting you update information that’s used across the network
in one central place.
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Chapter 1, “What Is NetInfo?,” introduces NetInfo. It tells you how NetInfo is used by
Mac OS X computers and highlights key aspects of its external and internal architecture. It
also introduces you to the various ways you can access and manipulate NetInfo data.
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Chapter 2, “NetInfo Planning,” provides guidelines to help you decide how to implement
NetInfo in your environment. Use the information in this chapter to design a NetInfo
hierarchy that gives your Mac OS X users easy access to the network resources they need,
yet minimizes the time you spend maintaining NetInfo data.
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Chapter 3, “Setting Up NetInfo Hierarchies,” tells you how to create and configure the
components of a NetInfo directory system.