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Setting Up NetInfo Hierarchies

Click Save, then click OK when a message tells you to restart the computer. It will take a few

minutes for your changes to be completed. When changes are complete, click the Close

button in the NetInfo Domain Setup window and restart the computer.

Setting Up Shared Domains in Deeper Hierarchies

When you need to constrain the visibility of some of your NetInfo data, use a hierarchy with

more shared domains than just a root domain.

In this example, two shared domains beneath the root domain—Math and English—limit the

data visible to processes running on Math and English student computers. The root domain

and the Math domain reside on one Mac OS X Server (server1) and the English domain

resides on a second server (server2).

To set up the shared domains in hierarchies such as these, you create the domains on the

computers where they will reside, then conﬁgure NetInfo machine records for each parent

domain.

Understanding Machine Records

Machine records provide the information needed for a child domain to bind to its parent:

The child domain needs to ﬁnd the shared domain that can serve as its parent, and

The shared domain needs to determine whether it matches the description of the parent

the child is looking for.

Machine records are located in the machines directory of a domain’s NetInfo database.

Local

Math student's computer

English student's computer

Local

English

Math

Local

server1

server2