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OSXServer domain integration into Active Directory
We currently run an Apple Mac domain which has an OSX Server 10.5.8 as the main directory services server. This serves approx 75 Macs all running 10.5.8. In workgroup manager we have 1200 users with Mac accounts. In our organisation we also run a Windows 2008 domain using Active directory. This also has 1200 users. So basically a single user has 2 logins, 1 for the mac domain and 1 for the Windows domain. They also have a home drive on the mac domain and a seperate home drive on the Windows domain. What I would like to do is for the users to have a single login using their Active Directory username but have access to their home drives on the Windows domain and the mac domain. Anybody got any good advice on the best way to achieve this.
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Irwin W.
Can your Mac users login FROM their Macs to AD? If so, your job is half done.
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No they cannot currently do this.
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Problem I have is that the users from the OD still have alot of content in their Mac home folders and I do not want to lose that. I would want the AD users to have access to the Mac home drive as well as the AD home drive.
You won't lose their data but HERE is what you MUST do with a a test machine:
- Join the machine to AD
- Remove the user from the Account pref pane on the workstation and select the option; DO NOT CHANGE THE HOME FOLDER
- Delete the user account from WGM
- Login as the user from AD(it would be best of the user's shortname is the same as it was in OD)
- The AD user should start using the existing home folder on the Mac workstation
Give it a try..
- Join the machine to AD
- Remove the user from the Account pref pane on the workstation and select the option; DO NOT CHANGE THE HOME FOLDER
- Delete the user account from WGM
- Login as the user from AD(it would be best of the user's shortname is the same as it was in OD)
- The AD user should start using the existing home folder on the Mac workstation
Give it a try..
ASKER
Cheers for the advice nappy d. One last thing. If I join the OSXServer to my Active directory domain, will the existing OD users still be able to login into directory services. Obvioulsy my idea is to join OSXServer to AD domain and then test some users while the existing OD users still use the OD service and login.
If you join you OD server to AD, your OD infrastructure will not be affected. All that will occur is that your OD will be able to read AD objects.
How's your test coming along?
ASKER
Hi Nappy, Not had a chance to try it as yet. We break for a week at the end of May so will be doing some testing then. Many thanks for all the advice.
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