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Panther and Active Directory

Just connected my first Panther client to Active Directory. It was easy. No server-side work was required as was the case prior to Panther. Just enabled the Active Directory plugin in Applications/Utilities/Directory Access and followed a couple steps in the help file to enter the right info, and enable authentication against AD. Now anyone in my AD config can log on to the Mac. Sweet. No more separate user config and password management.

It even automatically mounts the user’s Windows home directory as a sharepoint on the desktop.

Thursday, October 30th, 2003 at 10:55 am and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

4 Responses to “Panther and Active Directory”

  1. Matt Lenny Says:
    November 3rd, 2003 at 11:25 am

    I can’t get the Windows Home Directory to mount as a sharepoint on the Desktop. What am I missing?

    Is it something on the Panther client, or something on the W2K Server?

    Thanks,
    Matt.

  2. Chris Bojanower Says:
    November 6th, 2003 at 10:39 am

    Greg,
    I found your note while searching for AD/Panther info. I seemed to have joined my powerbook to the AD domain at work, however I cannot see how to enable AD users to authenicate. Can you tell me how you set it up or direct me to the help file yo mentioned, I cannot fins any info on my machine or at apples site. my email is boj@mac.com if you could contact me or offer any help I’d appreciate it

    Thank You
    Chris

  3. Don Says:
    November 13th, 2003 at 10:31 pm

    Can I get this information too? I tried using the directory services plugin, and I set the authentication and contacts to custom and added active directory. What else is there to do?

  4. Greg Pierce Says:
    November 13th, 2003 at 11:00 pm

    On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Don wrote:

    > Can I get this information too? I tried using the directory services
    > plugin, and I set the authentication and contacts to custom and added
    > active directory. What else is there to do?

    that’s all i had to do, and it worked…so I guess I don’t know where
    to go from there.

    g.

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