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Can users with local accounts authenticate against Active directory?

I have 100 Macs that have local user accounts. I need to have them authenticate against active directory for printing. Is it possible to add active directory authentication without causing them to create new accounts? Could they continue using the same local accounts?
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Unfortunately no. You need an AD Account to Authenticate against the domain. What you can do is setup the users machine with a IP printer directly to the machine. This will bypass the print server and go directly to the printer.

If you have any restrictions on the printer for this you will need to modify them for this to work. Other than that you will be required to create new accounts.

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Yes, you can. As long as the local account has the same name and password as a domain account, that is.
The user was specifically asking if this was possible without creating additional AD Accounts.
without causing them to create new accounts?

Could they continue using the same local accounts

Local accounts cannot authenticate against a domain.

Will.
I read that as without causing them to create new accounts on the local machine (Mac).
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Let me clarify. We have a server acting as a print server which runs PaperCut. AD is not set up on this server. Users have local accounts of their Macs. They have a PaperCut print client on their computer which they use to authenticate against PaperCut.

I am going to set up AD on the print server. I will the create user accounts in AD for each user. My goal is to get laptop users to authenticate against AD. This will eliminate the need for users to log into the PaperCut print client as I can have PaperCut use AD for authentication instead.

My question is if there is a way that these laptop users with local accounts can authenticate against user accounts in AD.
That should work as stated in http:#a40647595
OK. So the process would be to create an account with the same username and password as the local account on the laptop and then join the computer to the network account server?
Only the print server needs to be joined to the domain, if you mean that.
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