Assistance for AD Noob, please!

[MacRaider]

Hi

I have a requirement to set up a Mac OSX Server in a particular way and am wondering if anyone can tell me a) if it can be done like this and b) what I might need to look out for to get the set up right.

I want to setup a Mac OSX Server (10.5) connected to an Active Directory Server where the users and groups are controlled/maintained from the AD server but be able to specify on the Mac OSX Server that when the user logs in on a Mac workstation, that it looks for their Mac Home Directory on a volume attached to the Mac server and when they log in from a PC workstation, it will look for their PC profile in the default location as defined by the AD server.

I admit, I’m new to this type of setup and would like to know, can this be done and how can I go about setting this up.

Many thanks

Paul

[MacRaider]

Hi MacTroll

Yes, you’re right. We have an Xserve RAID that hosts the users Mac Home Folders and an Active Directory Server with storage that hosts the users Windows Profile, so ideally when the students log in from the iMacs it needs to log into their Mac Home Folder and when they log in from a PC workstation it needs to look to the Windows Server. Can this be done?

The students (around 1500) are entered into the AD system from the school admin system and rather than have to maintain two user lists, it would be ideal to just have one on the AD server.

Thanks
Paul

[Timothy Perfitt]

Since the home directory attribute is synthesized by the AD plugin, you can use augmented records to change it. It would then only be applied to the Macs. See page 43 (Chapter 9) at:

http://web.mac.com/bombich/Leveraging_AD_on_MOSXS_2.1.pdf

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