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Your Best bet would be to head over to the site that is concentrated on getting lone Macs onto Windows Domains, MacWindows.com.
What changed from 10.4 to 10.5 was the creation in System Preferences (in 10.5.x)->Network, the 'Advanced' button. When the drop down comes down fill out the Active directory login information/workgroup info in the 'WINS' tab. Also in 10.5.x in /Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility one must click on the + sign to add Active Directory support. Once you highlight Active Directory click on the pencil button to add your information.
The Web page Phase 3 – Joining Active Directory gives you a step by step process of what I was talking about.
Lastly the NTP server has to be the same on the Mac as on the Active Directory. One does this by getting the NTP server from the NetWork Administrator then in OS X 10.5.x go to System Preferences->Date & Time and highlight the already Apple time Server and copy over the IP of the NTP server that Active Directory is using. It is important you do this.
What changed from 10.4 to 10.5 was the creation in System Preferences (in 10.5.x)->Network, the 'Advanced' button. When the drop down comes down fill out the Active directory login information/workgroup info in the 'WINS' tab. Also in 10.5.x in /Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility one must click on the + sign to add Active Directory support. Once you highlight Active Directory click on the pencil button to add your information.
The Web page Phase 3 – Joining Active Directory gives you a step by step process of what I was talking about.
Lastly the NTP server has to be the same on the Mac as on the Active Directory. One does this by getting the NTP server from the NetWork Administrator then in OS X 10.5.x go to System Preferences->Date & Time and highlight the already Apple time Server and copy over the IP of the NTP server that Active Directory is using. It is important you do this.
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