Please help:adding a mac PC to the windows domain at work

[modi55]

Mac os x take so long to login

hi again guys,,, i've made th network and everything work great but some of mac user called me and said " my mac take so long to login" i thought its about 2 or 3 min's.. i asked him for how long it takes you he said 2 hours sometimes 1 hour 30 min's .... ... i made some test, i tried to clear the system Cash using the onyx software but its didn't help, so at once i thought why i dont remove the network cable and try.... its work .. it takes him to login only 1-2 min's so i know its not a prof-solution but i realy as usual neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed your help guys

 

[bartzilla]

hi again guys,,, i've made th network and everything work great but some of mac user called me and said " my mac take so long to login" i thought its about 2 or 3 min's.. i asked him for how long it takes you he said 2 hours sometimes 1 hour 30 min's .... ... i made some test, i tried to clear the system Cash using the onyx software but its didn't help, so at once i thought why i dont remove the network cable and try.... its work .. it takes him to login only 1-2 min's so i know its not a prof-solution but i realy as usual neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed your help guys

Every problem we've had with long logins and leopard has been traced to leopard not liking some part of the DNS settings issued by our DHCP servers. Tiger works fine, all versions of Windows works fine. We've used static IPs as a workaround for now.

 

[sdotbailey]

Make sure the machine name does not have an underscore '_'. I received the same message but then realized the underscore in my machine name.

Hey Paul, I also removed the underscores but am still getting the same error messages. Do you have any other advice? My sys admin guy really isn't all tha interested in helping me here, so, I'm learning this sh*t on my own!

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[sdotbailey]

Hey Paul, I also removed the underscores but am still getting the same error messages. Do you have any other advice? My sys admin guy really isn't all tha interested in helping me here, so, I'm learning this sh*t on my own!

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks,
Shawn

OK, so, I'm a douchebag....I figured it out and got connected.

But, from this tutorial I was reading, it made it seem that a new "Other" option should appear for me when I logged out/rebooted/whatevered my system after binding. But, that isn't the case. Can anyone offer any help with this instance? If I'm bound to the AD, what needs to happen next?

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[piper28]

I've been fighting with this issue of adding a mac to the AD myself off and on. In my case, I've been able to get the mac to bind to the domain without any problems. After that, I can use the Directory utility and can see lists of the users, groups, etc on the domain. However, for the life of me, I've been unable to get a domain user to be able to login to the mac. All I ever get is the login box shaking at me. I'm guessing I'm missing something simple stupid, but when I compare what I've done to what the various guides out there show, I just don't see what I'm missing. I've tried multiple domain accounts, so it's not that it's matching a same named account on the mac.

 

[surya973]

Funny you should ask; I was just playing around with this for the first time today. While it's fresh in my mind, I'll walk you through the steps. The following instructions apply to Leopard--I'm not sure if this would apply to earlier versions of OS X:

1) From Finder, select Go-->Utilities from the menu
2) Run "Directory Utility"
3) Click the little padlock, and enter a Mac admin's credentials to unlock it
4) Click on "Show Advanced Settings"
5) When the toolbar appears, select "Services" and then select "Active Directory" checkbox
6) Next, select "Directory Servers" from the toolbar, then click the "+" button to add your AD domain server
7) In the top drop-down box "Add a new directory of type," select "Active Directory".
8) Enter the name of your domain (I used FQDN nomenclature as in "mydomain.com"), then enter the username and password of a Domain Admin that is authorized to add computers to the AD directory and click OK
9) In the directory servers list, you should now see your domain with a little green light next to it and the message "This server is responding normally."
10) Now log off.
11) If the Mac is configured to show a list of users at login, select "Other" at the bottom. Enter your domain logon credentials: "mydomain\username" and your password. The machine will pause a minute to create new user folders, and then you're in AND you have access to all of your network shares without entering your name and password again.

That's it! What's cool is that any domain user can now log on to the machine without a local account being set up first.

Some caveats:

You will have trouble if the domain userID happens to match the short name of a local Mac account, e.g., if there is a local account named "Rich" and a domain user "mydomain\Rich" this will not work properly--it won't create new user folders for the domain user.

If you ARE running Leopard, make sure you're up to date. I was reading some complaints in another forum that AD integration was broken in Leopard prior to 10.5.2. I haven't personally verified that this is true, but just a word to the wise...

Hope this helps, have fun!

Hi... this seems extremely useful and I really would like to enter the windows network in my home with my mac, but I can't get beyond the 4th step because the window that comes up doesn't have "show advanced settings". My Mac version is 10.4.1.1
Any tips?
thanks in advance!

 

[Sky Blue]

Hi... this seems extremely useful and I really would like to enter the windows network in my home with my mac, but I can't get beyond the 4th step because the window that comes up doesn't have "show advanced settings". My Mac version is 10.4.1.1
Any tips?
thanks in advance!

Do you mean 10.4.11? Those instructions are for 10.5. In 10.4, just click Active Directory and then 'Configure'.

You're running Active Directory at home??

 

[jerwhite]

Mac on AD

I have a MAC G5 we are using to play around adding to the MS active directory. for about a week it has been absolutely sweet. following the steps in this thread, we have it sitting on the domain, accessing the network drives, talking to the exchange server, using the network printers (inlcuding a canon multifunction with some funky custom accounting software - took me forever to work that one out) but in the last couple of days it hasn't been playing ball. It keeps loosing its connection to the domain. At frist I thought the issue was a dodgy ethernet cable, but it isn't, then i suspected the network switch. again no. At the login screen the other user option comes and goes as connection with the server is gained or lost. usually this happens to quickly to log on. If i log onto the Mac's local admin account the directory utility says that the server isn't responding. So the fault may be with the server, but that seems a little strange given it was working quite happily for more than a week. I have looked everywhere I can think of to see if I have overlooked something but I am not sure where I should be looking. I have been a long time Mac user at home but have never needed to network one before so i am sort of following my nose. I do have admin access to the AD but I am no systems engineer so I am sort of following my nose their as well. I did get our regular engineer to check the AD but he isn't a mac person so probably wouldn't know what to look for either. If we can get this working somewhat stably then the number of macs we use will hopefully increase.

Try going to date and time and you have to check set sate and time automatically. But instead of choosing an external time server you choose your internal time server. My internal time server is my domain controller. Windows silently kicks you off the domain if you aren't synchronized with the internal time server/service. Hope this helps