Adding a Mac to a domain.

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Hi.
Does anyone know how to add a Mac to a Windows domain?
Cant find the setting in OSX myself. :(.

We have a Windows Server 2K3 based domain here, and all but one of our computers are Windows based. We have one MacMini that has been loaned to us, i'd like to make it part of the domain so users can access their work.

Thanks in advance all. :).
 
Theres a couple of options depending on how permanent the Mac will be connected to your network. You can use Directory Access to bind a Mac to an AD domain. However if you just want to be able to access network file space this is overkill and you'd be as well just connecting to them via smb in the Finder (Apple-K is the shortcut key)
 
I've done this recently and 10.4.9 makes this a breeze.
As stated above, just use the Active Directory node in Directory Access and enter the applicable details. It gets most of the details from AD so not much configuration is required. :)
 
The most ideal will be for it to just access a few shared drives on the network, but although it sees drives, it just wont connect. :confused:.
 
Will it connect to non domain shares, for example a plain windows xp installation with a share?

Have you tried entering the server's ip like so smb://x.x.x.x

Does a computer need to be on the domain in order to be able to access shares?

Have you tried another machine?
 
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