If memory serves, you could give it its own OD directory, then use the Directory Utility to bind it to Active Directory. That way you can authenticate off either side.
In Snow Leopard, you can access Directory Utility through the Accounts applet in System Preferences. Mike On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Tom Wilson wrote: > Ok. So I was hoping to get a box, install Linux, put Joomla on it and then > set up a new website for the district with the $1900 that was earmarked for a > server in the grant. The outgoing Supt. instead purchased two “Mini-macs”. > So now I am left here with no support or knowledge of how to > install/setup/configure/use these things. I got one hooked up and I am going > through the initial setup steps. I got to a place where it gives me a choice > of using it’s open directory or importing users and groups from AD. I am > trying to import the users from AD since we are a Win2003 network. I put in > the DNS name of the server (servername.district50.local) and it shows it as > an AD server. I put in my administrator account and password and click on > continue. It then pops up and says it is cannot authenticate and that my > username and password are incorrect. > > First, should I even be doing it this way or is there a way to just join this > thing to my domain and have my win servers manage the users? > > Second, If I am on the right path, any ideas as to why it will not verify my > account information and import the users? > > Third, Anyone have any “Mac OS X server” for dummies websites that may help > me as I am now forced to teach myself Apple, OS X, and it’s integration with > a Windows network? > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Tom Wilson > Network Manager\ > Technology Coordinator > District 50 Schools > 1014 School St. > Washington, IL 61571 > (309) 745-9531 > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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