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Using OS X with Active Directory
Authored by: Jaharmi on Oct 04, '02 07:59:22PM

Apple has a document describing what to do, produced after a great many people asked about the very same thing. The document was produced in the Mac OS X 10.1 timeframe.

<http://www.apple.com/server/pdfs/MacOSXwithActiveDirectory.pdf>

Note that you apparently need home directories on an AFP or NFS file server in order to make directory logins work. Unless you have home directories for your directory-enabled users on the local drive. Same goes for Kerberos logins, in my experience.



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Using OS X with Active Directory
Authored by: pjorgensen on Jan 13, '03 11:01:12AM

I can authenticate to an LDAP server (v2) and get a console login window on my OS X server (or on clients running Jag). BUT I can't figure out how to map home directories to users whose info is stored on the ldap server. Put another way, I can't get the numeric uid from the ldap server. If I could get it, then I think I could create directories owned by the appropriate uids for each user.

Another approach is to use the non-OSX ldap server to only authenticate the password, and then let the other info come from the OS X netinfo database.

Or would it work to set up ldap instead of netinfo on the OS X server. Could the ldap on the OS X server then authenticate passwords from the other ldap server, supplying the rest of the necessary information from local files?

TIA



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