TITLE
    Mac OS X Server: Macintosh Manager Warning Messages Modifying Users
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Created:
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24998
9/21/99
9/22/99

TOPIC

    I just converted my At Ease users and groups to Macintosh Manager. Everything seems to be working alright, but sometimes I get errors when modifying users in Macintosh Manager. These messages include numbers -29312 and -29310, and the message "The user could not be found in the AFP registry". Macintosh Manager seems to function alright regardless of the errors. Should I be concerned?


DISCUSSION

    The messages you are receiving are warning messages that you may get if you modify a Macintosh Manager user who does not exist in NetInfo. One common way to get into such a situation is to convert an At Ease Items folder for use with Macintosh Manager. Macintosh Manager will convert all of the At Ease users, but it will not automatically create them in NetInfo. The warning messages do not indicate any damage to your Macintosh Manager databases and can be safely ignored.

    When you use Macintosh Manager's New User command, or when you use the Import command in the File menu, it creates a user in the Macintosh Manager database (located inside the Macintosh Manager Items folder on the server), and one in NetInfo. This way, you can easily add Macintosh Manager users to the user list for Apple File Services.

    For some modifications, Macintosh Manager will try to update the NetInfo user. Two examples are changing a user's status from an Administrator to a Normal user, and deleting the user. If you are making modifications of a user which does not exist in NetInfo, you will get one of the warnings above when Macintosh Manager tries to modify NetInfo and fails to find the user. Since Macintosh Manager uses its own database and only updates NetInfo as a convenience, it will still make the desired changes to the Macintosh Manager database.

Document Information
Product Area: Mac OS System Software
Category: Mac OS X Server
Sub Category: Macintosh Manager; Troubleshooting

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