ozzmannt Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I don't know if this has been discussed here, or if this is even the right place. But I'm upgrading a bunch of G5s to panther and am wanting to get these things to authenticate to the domain in the login dialog. From what I've seen, this seems to be possible from what documentation I've read. I have joined the computers on the domain using the directory services Utility and it shows up on the domain perfectly and it acutally used my domain password to do this. Then I added the domain to the "authentication." Here is the problem, I need them to authenticate to the domain at the login dialog and they won't do it. I've tried to login using domain\user user@domain and it only seems to try to authenticate locally. What am I missing, I just can't find any good documentation on this either. Also how do I get standard users to be able to earse CD-RWs using the Disk Utility. Any help is good, I've worked with Windows up to this point solely, but OS X is definatly a challenge from an administrator's POV. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebaz Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 go to Applications -> Utilities -> Directory Access Click on the lock to make changes, put in your root password. Click on Active Directory and then Configure.. Fill in everything there and the advance options if necesary. Then check the box, click the lock icon again, and see if it works. Make sure your panther installations are up-to-date also. Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Sebaz, I think ozzmannt already did this. I believe that ozzmannt wants to be able to authenticate domain users at logon rather than having them login as a local user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFNE Freak Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I'm not that experienced in stuff like this, but did/do you have to select "Network Startup" from Startup Disk in System Preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizza Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I'm not that experienced in stuff like this, but did/do you have to select "Network Startup" from Startup Disk in System Preferences. That has nothing to do with logging on to the local machine. Thats to boot the machine from a network server...think thin clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbalsh Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I'm not 100% sure but i think that you need OS X Server to act as a 'go between', think about it if your logining in over the domain then were does OS X store all your settings etc...? I know you can setup OSX to be a 'domain server' and that stores all your OS X clients. Again not 100% sure about this so don't shoot me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzmannt Posted February 8, 2004 Author Share Posted February 8, 2004 Sebaz, I think ozzmannt already did this. I believe that ozzmannt wants to be able to authenticate domain users at logon rather than having them login as a local user. Yes you're correct, and I have done all of this and still cannot get it to authenticate directly to the Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) server. I will try to use the X Server to pass through the data. Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebaz Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 Have u tried this: Create a share in the DC and try mounting it on the panther, if you cant it gives you an error -5000, go to the DC and check the domain Security Policy and de-activate the \"Always secured connection\" policy. Since panther uses samba to communicate with windows, im guessing this could be an answer to your problems. After you change that policy try loggin off and loggin into the domain. Hope it helps you man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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