How to bind Windows domains?

[dtrimble]

My company has a couple dozen Apple systems, but mostly Windows XP-based systems. Of course, the company's network is Windows-based.

I'm struggling to figure out how to configure Leopard to bind itself to the company's corporate domain. I don't expect full compatibility and interoperability. My only real goal is to be able to access shared network folders / my own user folder from directly within Mac OS X, so I don't need to load up the painfully and miserably inefficient Parallels.

Any guidance would be much appreciated. If it matters, I'm running a MBP, 2.33 Ghz / 3 GB, with Leopard 10.5.2.


Dan

 

[Eidorian]

It's under Directory Utility. Spotlight Ahoy! That is if you don't know where it is.

 

[GirthP]

I got it working on my leopard macbook pro, if you need some help message me. I'm on a SBS 2003 server.

 

[dtrimble]

It's under Directory Utility. Spotlight Ahoy! That is if you don't know where it is.

So I found that dialog, but EVERYTHING is disabled on it. See my screen shots below.

Any ideas?

Dan

 

[dtrimble]

So I found that dialog, but EVERYTHING is disabled on it. See my screen shots below.

Any ideas?

Dan

Never mind. I figured it out. Duh.


This is just not my day today...


dt

 

[Boomhowler]

please tell what you did

 

[dtrimble]

please tell what you did

Take a look my screenshots in the entry above. Everything was grayed out because I had the lock set in the bottom left corner

That said, even upon unlocking, I couldn't get Leopard to actually bind to the domain. I gave up trying, and am still hoping to stumble upon an answer one of these days.


Dan

 

[yellow]

There is plenty of information about how to bind a Mac to AD.
Is that what you're trying to do?

 

[Sky Blue]

Click on Directory Servers, and click the plus button. Change to Active Directory, enter the appropriate information and click Bind. That's it.

 

[yellow]

That's it.

Well, there's a little more to it than that, depending on the setup of the domain and it's schema(s) where you're at..

By default, you're probably going to have to have access to AD Users and Computers to add the correct computer object to the proper OU. Which means you need a valid login and permissions for the AD environment.

 

[dgdosen]

There's plenty of issues using macs and windows machines on the same network. Mac should be better at SMB shares, but in general, if you're on an Active Directory network, you'll have issues.

There have a few threads on this forum regarding this issue. Do a search, and good luck!

When the work together well, life is great!