How to set up Active Directory

Nov 14, '03 10:13:00AM

Contributed by: LittleSaint

I've seen a lot of people asking how to setup Active Directory (AD), so I thought I'd post my setup which works. This assumes you have a working AD tree, properly configured DNS, and an account that can add computer objects to AD. Here's what the plug-in configuration looks like in Directory Access (located in /Applications -> Utilities):

You can make the forest the same as the domain if your users don't need to access resources outside the domain. I found this also speeds up authentication in some cases. When you click on Bind..., you have to enter a username and password that has rights to add computers. The format is just:
username
password
Advanced Settings:Select OK, quit Directory Access, reboot.

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