Mac OSX and Windows 2000 Active Directory

[Kevin Brown]

Bryce C wrote:
> You might want to talk to a MUGger (they charge money though, hehe,
> mugger) but try finding the desktop folder under the user's(your's) home
> folder copy a template icon from somewhere else when mounted and then
> delete when you unmount.  Just a guess from my limited experience,
> playing at CompUSA and Fry's.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 19:15, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
>>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?

OK, found a workaround for anyone else that might be interested in this. 
Mounted the desired share using the GUI, then create a shortcut in the Favorites 
folder by copying the Desktop link to it.  Now when the user wants to mount that 
share, they just double-click that item from their favorites folder and it gets 
remounted.