Mac OSX and Windows 2000 Active Directory

[Kevin Brown]

Kevin Brown wrote:
>>>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?
>>
>>I'll have to check how I configured things when I get back to work for my
>>OSX users, but to mount the shares, I just had to open up a file sharing
>>window and enter smb://someserver/someshare and it worked.  I can't
>>remember if there was a check box to automount after login or not...  I'm
>>assuming so, since I'd get complaints if they had to type their password
>>everytime they accessed a new share.  Or maybe they just don't logout.
>>Anyway, I'm rambling.  I'll look into it more tomorrow for you.
> 
> 
> Thanks.  I would very much appreciate it.  
> 
> So far I've been able to get the Mac to mount a share from a temp Win2k server,
> but didn't spot an option for making them remounted during login (used Apples
> GUI to mount them).  I'd prefer not to have to use fstab as that is a point of
> weakness for security if the machine gets broken into (username and password in
> plaintext) and it would always mount the shares as the same user.

OK, well I now have a MAC laptop of my own (my new work machine).  I can mount 
the SMB shares from fstab, command-line, or shell script, but with a few minor 
hitches.

When mounted via the OSX gui it creates the mount point, mounts the requested 
share and then places a certain icon onto the Desktop.  I can, so far, mimic the 
first two (create the mount point and mount the share), but can't replicate the 
third behavior.

Anyone got any pointers?