Using samba to allow unix systems to authenticate against active directory. (I don't necessarily recommend doing this, but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to!) http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563 Mapping drives to windows shares with samba works exactly the same way with AD as it did under NT4. Some items to keep in mind. 1: Samba does not support Windows Kerberos or NTLM V2. You have to support either lanman or NTLM authentication. (Windows will by default, but if you have aggressive security people they may have disabled them.) 2: Joining the windows domain will work as well, but the computer account must be created as pre-windows 2000 compatible. 3: You want to use (at least) the 2.2.x versions of Samba. For much more good info on this, go here: http://www.google.com/search?q=samba+howto Good luck! Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Brown" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:41 PM Subject: Mac OSX and Windows 2000 Active Directory > I recently obtained full-time employment and one of the tasks that I'm faced > with is getting Mac OSX to work with a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain. > OSX ships with Samba 2.2.3a, which I believe allows it to be able to work with > the older NT4 domains. > > The biggest problem I'm looking at right now is getting the Mac to automount > shares from the AD servers when the user logs in and quite possibly using the AD > servers to authenticate the user in the first place. I know I can get normal > Windows Shares statically mounted via fstab entries, but don't know about Win2k > AD domains/shares. > > Anyone have pointers to any docs about doing this? > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >