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Workgroup Manager: Clients may not appear when adding computers to a computer group.

Posted in Apple Mac OS

Products Affected

Lion Server, Mac OS X Server 10.5, Mac OS X Server 10.6, OS X Server (Mountain Lion)

Symptoms

When using the ellipsis button (...) in Workgroup Manager to browse and add computers to a computer group, all computers on the local network may not appear in the list.

Resolution

When using the ellipsis button (...) in Workgroup Manager to browse and add computers to a computer group, clients will not appear in the list unless the following conditions are met.

Mac OS X v10.6 and later

  • The client is bound to a server using Directory Utility

Note: OS X Lion clients should be updated to v10.7.3 or later. Clients running 10.7 through 10.7.2 may not appear in the list when browsing.
 

Mac OS X v10.5 

  • The client is bound to a server using Directory Utility
    or
  • The client receives LDAP information via DHCP (also referred to as "option 95")

Additional Information

Workgroup Manager is not included with OS X Server (Mountain Lion).

Read more http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2079