Connection apple 10.8.4 to windows

hargi · 13 Aug 2013 at 11:40

Looking for a bit of help I'm trying to get an MacAir onto the network so we can use printopia and be able to print from ipads.

I am following this tutorial http://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-join-a-mac-os-x-computer-to-active-directory/

We are using windows 2008 r2
From my understanding the domain controller is called DC1
and the active directory is school.local

on the binding page I have tried school.local and dc1.school.local in the Active Directory Domain field.
Also afte clicking bind in the username i have used administrator and school\administrator and I get
Authentication server could not be contacted or
unable to connect to server.

Any Ideas?

slinxy · 13 Aug 2013 at 19:57

You need the name of the domain not the name of the DC or AD.

I think your making this harder that it needs to be, just enable rdp on a windows machine, then setup a remote connection from the iPad back to that machine, then they will have windows in the iPad to print away.

I'm currently looking at remoteapp so that TS can advertise some particular windows apps and iPad/iPhone/mac can run it.. Bit stuck on the mac rdp client at the moment.

Skyboat · 13 Aug 2013 at 20:37

slinxy said:
You need the name of the domain not the name of the DC or AD.

I think your making this harder that it needs to be, just enable rdp on a windows machine, then setup a remote connection from the iPad back to that machine, then they will have windows in the iPad to print away.

I'm currently looking at remoteapp so that TS can advertise some particular windows apps and iPad/iPhone/mac can run it.. Bit stuck on the mac rdp client at the moment.

I think what he wants to do is setup the MBA to be a pseudo print server for iPad clients using AirPrint. The software he wants to use, Printopia, is ideal for this. Once this is setup it'll work orders of magnitude better than using RDP software on iOS.

What I can't understand is why use a MacBook Air though :confused:

Is this simply due to not having access to any other Mac computer?

slinxy · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:48

sorry I should have looked at what Printopia actually did.

but either the domain name is it correct, your the account details your entering doesn't rights to add to the AD or that part of the AD.

have you tried adding a windows machine to the domain with those account details?

this is a much more up to date guide.
http://www.trainsignal.com/blog/join-mac-to-windows-domain