Hi
I'm having a bit of a headache at a school I look after. The school went in an apple direction and before my time had there whole system set up with Apple products. Server is Snow Leopard, Mac's are mainly Mavericks (mix of White macbooks and some Macbook pros) with a handful of Snow Leopard ones mixed in that were too old to upgrade. The teachers all have Macs and the kids have about 10 macs left (they've been breaking over time, they had 30 at first), they also had 30 Windows machines that just aren't on any domain, they just have a student account locally, they have now been ordering more and more windows machines to replace the macs and to help TA's etc.
I they keep asking for student, teacher, TA and other accounts to be set up but as it stands I'd have to do that on a machine by machine basis, there is a windows server here but it's just being used as a file server for the office staff, I'd like to turn it into a Domain Controller, add the windows machines to that but leave the Mac stuff alone for now (will look at moving that across at a later date), I'm happy to leave the DHCP on the Mac server for now as we may have to sort a larger IP range in the near future so I'll move the DCHP over then, the only issue I can't work out is how to point the MAC's to the Mac server for DNS and the Windows machines to the Windows server (I'm thinking if I don't do that I'll have issues one way or another). So how would I get around this and also is there any other pitfuls I could fall into?
I'm having a bit of a headache at a school I look after. The school went in an apple direction and before my time had there whole system set up with Apple products. Server is Snow Leopard, Mac's are mainly Mavericks (mix of White macbooks and some Macbook pros) with a handful of Snow Leopard ones mixed in that were too old to upgrade. The teachers all have Macs and the kids have about 10 macs left (they've been breaking over time, they had 30 at first), they also had 30 Windows machines that just aren't on any domain, they just have a student account locally, they have now been ordering more and more windows machines to replace the macs and to help TA's etc.
I they keep asking for student, teacher, TA and other accounts to be set up but as it stands I'd have to do that on a machine by machine basis, there is a windows server here but it's just being used as a file server for the office staff, I'd like to turn it into a Domain Controller, add the windows machines to that but leave the Mac stuff alone for now (will look at moving that across at a later date), I'm happy to leave the DHCP on the Mac server for now as we may have to sort a larger IP range in the near future so I'll move the DCHP over then, the only issue I can't work out is how to point the MAC's to the Mac server for DNS and the Windows machines to the Windows server (I'm thinking if I don't do that I'll have issues one way or another). So how would I get around this and also is there any other pitfuls I could fall into?