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It is possible to place an AD inside of an OD domain, but there is much more involved in setting it up and maintaining it than either running OD by itself or OD inside of an AD domain. Michael

Two things to look at: 1. Does WGM quit out on any machine that connects to your OD to create a new user? The WGM application (an all Server tools) should be installed fresh on each machine and not just copied. 2. Is your DNS perfect? You need to have appropriate forward and reverse...

Good info! :) Well, to start, you never want to deploy a critical service on hardware you are suspect of. If the service you need is mission critical, it should be on hardware you can rely upon and trust. How many Windows clients are you looking to support? Tiger Server can provide domain...

Depends on where you want the user accounts to reside. You can create accounts in Active Directory and implement an Open Directory to only provide managed preferences. Alternatively, you could put all of it Open Directory. Either way you can put the files on Mac OS X. I think I'd need a bit...

Could it be that you had started creating a new user and closed WGM without assigning in the attributes? That will create an Untitled user. What UID is it? Michael

If you are looking to set Windows group policy, you won't be doing that through Open Directory. Just like Mac OS X clients won't get group policy specified in Active Directory (barring password policy, extended schema mods or items like Centrify), Windows clients won't get group policy designed...

lol - thanks! :) No cost involved to download the document - it is freely available. Backup is a subject that most folks don't like and is a very thankless task. Since I've had to do a lot of the research in the past and have to continually for different clients, I figure I'll save other...

Hi all - If you have a server, you need a good backup solution. I'd like to invite you all to download a copy of my newest installment of Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions, that includes some great tips and tricks on how to consolidate your data, rotate your media and which software...

OD isn't storing the authentication authority information for the AD users in the OD groups - it is only really holding onto the LDAP info such as UID and location of the account. The server will still need the AD for authenticating the user that resides in AD as their true "home" in your...

For Vista Ultimate, you need to change the Security Policy MSC in three different areas. They include: Local Security Policy Security Options LAN Manager Authentication Level You'll want to change the default setting from “Send NTLMv2 response only” to “Send LM & NTLM - use...

Which version of Windows Vista do you have that's attempting to connect to the SMB server? There's security changes between Vista and XP in how it will attempt to connect.

Could be that the view/control settings got turned off. Sometimes the GUI doesn't quite get the job done. Try using the kickstart command to setup your privs again. Something like this should suffice: /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart/...

Well, you probably won't be replicating AD to OD...OD cannot be an AD controller. It can be a PDC/BDC, but that's a whole different conversation! :) If you have all of your user information in AD, you may as well go with it, if you are comfortable with it. Create an Open Directory Master (and...

Place the items in a mutually shared area. Applications should be downloaded in the root Applications folder, if you want them to be accessible between users. This means the Applications folder that's at the first level of your Macintosh HD, or whatever you may have named your specific hard...

You could use dscl to work with the group members in each group, but how are you qualifying what group a specific user is going to belong to? Are you just trying to replicate the groups in AD, but in OD? Michael

Depends on what you're doing. If you have some flavor of Network home, such as a Portable home, the AFP server uses an exclusive lock on the AFP volume to prevent other connections overwriting data or causing corruption. If you bounce your machine off the network, it may stay locked, but...

You should be OK. Is it just a matter that the DNS is moving from the local box to the one in the head office or do you have to change the FQDN and IP as well? If it's just changing which server houses the DNS, just be sure that the records are setup properly and you should be OK. Michael

Remember, with Open Directory, you can manage services through MCX at multiple levels. For example, instead of enabling use of specific Software Update Server locally on each account, you could manage it at the Machine level through Open Directory managed settings, so any user that logs into...

A decent place to start would be to reset the PMU on the G4. Could just need a quick reset to get you going. Otherwise, you may have some more pressing issues at hand. Did you own this machine or did the client? If you know the machine's history, it's easier to figure out. :) Michael

I have a bunch of domains running from one Mac OS X Server. What version of the OS are you running? I have Tiger here. The steps I usually used were: 1. Create new Site record in Server Admin 2. Fill in domain name, IP, Port, Web folder for that domain and default index pages. 3. Add in...