Joe wrote: > Hi all, I am upgrading our "scanner" at work, and will be moving it > from a Biege desktop G3 (Gossamer?) to a Blue and White Tower G3, > will also be amking the move from OS9 to OSX, the main reason for > this switch is because we use Linux file servers, and when people > scan something on the Mac it can't see the fileserver, as it uses > winbloze filesharing, I know there is an apple client and we tried > that and its too buggy, so we migrated all our other macs to OSX > except this one because there were no drivers for the scanner for > OSX, well we're getting a new scanner so, we can do that now. My big > question is, is it possible to get OSX to query a domain controller > for credentials when people log in, or do I have to go in and add > everyone's log in info to this one mac, this isn't a concern on our > other macs because they are only used by one person, how ever this is > a machien everyone needs to be able to log into and get to their > stuff on the server with. > > If you guys know anythign about this and can help me out at all that > would be great, I haev no idea how to get this to happen, but I'm > pretty sure the unix stuff under the hood of OSX is capable of > this...
First, your original setup was largely bogus. In a mixed environment of Macs and PC's against a Linux file server there is NO reason NOT to use netatalk to serve Mac clients. You can do it via the same accounts, and server the *same* directories via samba and netatalk. It's allegedly possible per this white paper, which mainly talks about intergrating OSX server and Active Directory, but since OSX server uses LDAP as a authentication mechanism, it's doable. <http://a1584.g.akamai.net/7/1584/51/7f99c60f0c08bf/www.apple.com/macosx/server/pdf/MacOSXwithActiveDirectory.pdf> One of the network managers here on campus has been playing with it (and managed to lock himself *entirely* out of his system, so experiment first!) Here's some more links: <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/588646.588713> <http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/ldap/english/ldap.html> <http://www.macosxlabs.org/> <--Very Good! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
