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"Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory
eexlebots asks: "I work for a small college which has a few Mac OS X 10.2 machines and a fairly standard Active Directory setup. Actual deployment of these clients rides on getting them to authenticate at login to our Active Directory server. Apple has stated that this is possible (easy! seamless!) with Jaguar without the use of an additional Mac OS X server, but I have found the case to be quite different. It is possible, but not without a good deal of nightmarish configuration issues. Documentation? HA! No sign of it anywhere on Apple's site. I'm not alone: at macwindows.com I found a good many people who think that Apple's claims of seamless Windows Network integration to be a bad joke and nothing more. I was wondering who else out there is having this problem, and what they have done to solve it."
It wasn't until this very column, titled Mac OS X with Active Desktop, until I realized how very stupid the humans at slashdot are. I never paid any attention to others who insisted this, but now I'm a believer. I mean, come on! Active Desktop when the text clearly says Active Directory. Jeez, where does slashdot find them? On topic now.. I've seen documentation on Apples's site on how to do it, but it's quite a mess. We currently support Win2k(soon XP) and Linux boxen in the Bio dept. at MIT, because of the kerberos. With the release of Jaguar, Macs become a viable managed platform for us, as opposed to the unmanaged platforms we have to support, such as Irix, NT4, Solaris(although 9 finally supports kerberos). Any success stories and/or caveats will be appreciated by many.
Do you see the sig? Do you have it in your sights? Why yes, Miss Moneypenny...
...have always been that their single user experience was good. Mac users don't just like their macs at home, they love them. Apple realized this and catered to that strength. Meanwhile Wintel took over the corporations of america. Besides from schools and maybe graphics/multimedia places, who would implement an Apple network?
Thus it doesn't surprise me that their implementation is unpolished. Polish is, however Apple's strength, so give em hell, and give em time, and they'll come round.
Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?
This is true. You can't expect the average linux user to understand things like "GUI". I mean, the fact that you can just change the cd in the cdrom drive without typing 400 commands amazes most Linux users. I'd really like to know why the above post was modded as a troll. I'll get you in metamod. Modding down posts you don't agree with is inappropriate.
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