Jim Potter wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a Mac (OS X I'm using) to authenticate to a Samba/NT domain? I've been playing with this all day, and am not getting very far - smbd, nmbd and winbind (3.0.2) all run fine, I can see the domain, can connect individually to windows shares, wbinfo shows users (and groups, I assume), but there's no hints as far as what the equivalent to nsswitch.conf (there's no libnss_winbind.so, or /etc/nsswitch.conf). I was hoping to set them up similarly to adding Linux clients, as domain members with automount or something. OS X looks enough like linux to be comfortable, but not enough like it for me to be able to get it to work.
I believe the answer is (probably) a combination of LDAP and OpenDirectory (Apples centralised admin system) - though I'm not at all sure which bits are OS X Server only and which are avialable in the desktop version. You can find manuals at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107912.
If you look in the OpenDirectory admin guide you will find some fairly detailed stuff on what a Mac will look for in a directory services server (OpenDirectory is basically an LDAP schema) which should help you work out what you want.
Simon
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