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Open Directory error explanations.

So I was helping someone out who was having a mysterious error in Workgroup Manager, and they were surprised when I showed them how to find what the actual error code meant.


man DirectoryService


has a nice description of them towards the bottom:

ERRORS
     From <DirectoryService/DirServiceTypes.h>
          eDSNoErr                           =    0
          eDSOpenFailed                      =    -14000
          eDSCloseFailed                     =    -14001
          eDSOpenNodeFailed                  =    -14002

etc etc. Yes, it would be nice if Workgroup Manager actually had the slightly more descriptive name appear rather than the numeric code, wouldn't it? :)

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