I work for a small IT company, and we have a set of windows servers and an Xserve G5 running our network.
The Windows machines provide our email and shared calendars (one of them is an Exchange Server) but they are mainly there for us to practise troubleshooting, upgrading, maintenance etc before we make changes or repairs to our customers machines. The exchange server is running the AD and is the PDC, the other two don't really matter.
The Xserve is attached to a 3rd party RAID array, and is running Tiger Server.
My boss asked me to try and setup some other services, as the Xserve was only running afp. It wasn't joined to the AD either. It had a few local accounts for those of us who needed to access the RAID, but these had similar or identical names to our AD accounts, which provide us all email.
The main service I want to get running is Software Update, but I know my boss also plans to setup network home folders on the RAID at some point.
I found the article on this site about AD/OD integration and decided that the model it describes would give me everything I want, so I figured I'd follow it through and see how I got on.
I recquisitioned an old G4 PowerMac with a Sonnet upgrade to be my new OD Master and software update server.
The PowerMac is now also running Tiger server.
I joined the Xserve to the AD domain, and followed the instructions to test the edu.mit.kerberos file, and this is where I ran into difficulty. The article says: if the 'kinit' command takes your password without response, then the file is valid.
This didn't happen for me. I then realised that I wasn't sure I was using the right password. (Only need it for email, and that was setup months ago - the RAID is accessed via a separate account on the Xserve) I logged into the exchange server and changed my password. It now worked as predicted.
I then setup the SMB service for the Home folders, but when I finished modding the smb.conf file, the Windows role had changed under Server Admin from standalone todomain member. The article says this shouldn't happen, but I just put it down to the fact I was using Tiger and not Panther Server.
Anywaqy, I setup the OD Master, then setup an admi client to sort out the users and groups, but no matter how much I try, it won't add AD users to OD groups. I get the green circle with the plus sign, but the Group members box stays empty.
What am I doing wrong?