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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."

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  1. "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Des by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    should read: "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory

  2. Confusion on title by j0217995 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The title was "Seamless" Integration of MAC OS X w/ Active Desktop, but shouldn't be Active Directory, or did I somehow miss the Active Desktop part of things?

  3. What the hell? by djellusion · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What does this have to do with Active Desktop? I think our fine editors messed up yet another story title (YaST). You may want to think about changing it to Active Directory, being thats what the article is based on.

    My .02

  4. It's Active Directory by donutello · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Not Active Desktop

    Big Difference!

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    Mmmm.. Donuts
  5. Re:APPLE document: Integrating Mac OS X with AD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    You forgot:

    5) PROFIT!