Integrating / binding Mac OS X to Active Directory 2003 domain

ssiruuk2

ssiruuk2

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At work we are being forced down the road of buying in a load of Apple notebooks.. which I can see that we are going to have to integrate onto the domain somehow so users can use their normal Windows usernames / passwords and connect to their usual network home directory etc.

Anyone have any experience of this and do you know of any good resources on the internet that covers it? Any pointers ? ;)

What do you do about policies/locking them down and rolling out settings such as internet connection details etc? Sorry Apple OS X client or server is totally new to me.

Thanks :)
 
Thanks for your pointer Epswat; thats really helpful - thank you.

It sounds ideal so far, I was looking at the link further up the post but that requires a dedicated Mac OS server which we dont currently have I really don't fancy implementing on just to act as a bridge between the macs and AD.

Most of our Apple machines are Tiger but these 15 new notebooks are going to be running leopard so I might have a test with this on our G5 and see what this software is like.

Thanks again Epswat :cool:
 
Spoken to Centrify sales and got an evaluation download; however they say that they now won't have a market ready version 4 plugin for Mac OS X due till March / April due to Apple's own teething problems with the Leopard OS.

So my next question is... does anyone know if I can get a 10.4x version of the Apple OS and wipe / install it onto the new Mac computers / notebooks that have just been purchased that are running 10.5x?

Sorry but Apple OS is totally new to me.

Thanks :)
 
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