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"Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory

Posted by Cliff on from the more-seams-than-your-average-dress dept.

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."

12 of 300 comments (clear)

  1. It's difficult by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Math is hard

  2. slow day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    huh?

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post! And btw, who actually uses active desktop?

  4. Hypocrites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Microsoft is evil! But we will embrace their technology"

  5. Word! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Word

  6. KTHXBYE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus.. enough Apple shit already. Go to MacSlash and post your questions there. Or any other Apple all the time website. Go point and drool your away to a solution and leave us Linux hackers alone. KTHXBYE

  7. Active Directory is different than Active Desktop by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Active Directory is Microsoft's enterprise X.500-like security and authentication scheme. You set it up on a network of Windows servers and the clients all authenticate with those. Active Desktop is putting a webpage on your desktop.

  8. More Bitching... by Ghengis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can we please have more people bitch about the title? I guess it's not enough for one or two people to say it...

    --

    "The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley..." - ROBERT BURNS

  9. THEY CHANGED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the topic! LYNCH THEM.

    How dare you change the topic without posting an update saying you have done so? The audacity of it amazes even me.

  10. Bitch, Bitch, Bitch. by haxor.dk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YAFAB?

    (Yet Another Fucking Apple Basher)

  11. First hand knowledge of this issue... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 05, @01:57PM
    from the more-seams-than-your-average-dress dept.


    And Cliff is certainly speaking from experience.

  12. Re:Humans at slashdot truly are stupid by jacorrea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well we have two things in common, before I read your post I was about to make the very same observation about the very witty and intelligent posting that goes on here, but I'll keep quiet now. I am also at MIT(the Press), we have a 60/40,PC/Mac split and I am trying to dig up as much as possible on this now that we will be able to start our own domains. I have not found any useful information so far but I have faith someone will make it work.