AD Integration Questions/Problems

[joshm86]

I have a question about AD Integration. We currently have a mixed environment with Macs on Open Directory 10.6, and also have a large Active Directory setup. We have decided to integrate the Macs into our AD environment. We have a simple setup, about 30 workstations and 3 servers running AFP and SMB with 3 promise v-tracks. We have had good results integrating the clients, but are experiencing problems with the file servers. When we apply Active Directory ACL’s to the share points and propagate the permissions, it’s almost as if the ACL’s are being ignored. On another server, the ACL’s seem to work correctly, but when we add/remove a user from a group controlling that share point in Active Directory, it takes about an hour for the change to take affect. Is their something I’m missing? I also don’t know if the POSIX permissions are causing any problems on these servers possibly?

I should also mention that we don’t use remote homes, or managed preferences. Users have local home directories, and log on and off, that it. We don’t have a need for a magic triangle or a complicated setup for no reason.

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