Having MAC OSx authenthicate against AD

[Guest Joe]

Hey I have a question, there has been some talk here about getting iMACs, so

trying to stay one step ahead, and as much as I think Apple does a good job

with their OS's, they fall short when it comes to allowing seamless

intergration. The growing concern on my part is the Authenthication of

users. I know the work around is to change the AD schema so that

authenthicatino is not encrypted.. I was hoping to have an easier

workaround.

 

Any ideas?

[Guest Daniel Peterson]

Re: Having MAC OSx authenthicate against AD

 

I don't believe that more recent OS X versions require AD schema changes any

longer.

 

Apple provides a page with more information on this topic (along with

discussion group links) here:

 

http://www.apple.com/itpro/articles/adintegration/

 

"Joe" <josephadeluca@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:6835BD1E-5DEE-4429-B33D-F1AD4B99C033@microsoft.com...

> Hey I have a question, there has been some talk here about getting iMACs,

> so trying to stay one step ahead, and as much as I think Apple does a good

> job with their OS's, they fall short when it comes to allowing seamless

> intergration. The growing concern on my part is the Authenthication of

> users. I know the work around is to change the AD schema so that

> authenthicatino is not encrypted.. I was hoping to have an easier

> workaround.

>

> Any ideas?

>

[Guest Jeff Stockamp]

Re: Having MAC OSx authenthicate against AD

 

You should be able to join 10.4.x and higher Mac clients to a W2K3 without

schema changes. Works pretty well actually.

 

- Jeff

 

"Joe" <josephadeluca@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:6835BD1E-5DEE-4429-B33D-F1AD4B99C033@microsoft.com...

> Hey I have a question, there has been some talk here about getting iMACs,

> so trying to stay one step ahead, and as much as I think Apple does a good

> job with their OS's, they fall short when it comes to allowing seamless

> intergration. The growing concern on my part is the Authenthication of

> users. I know the work around is to change the AD schema so that

> authenthicatino is not encrypted.. I was hoping to have an easier

> workaround.

>

> Any ideas?

>