Finale Cut Server in an Active Directory environment

[egadsby]

Dear Friends,

Has anybody gotten Finale Cut Server working in an Active Directory environment. We got the server running on a Xserv and bound it to our AD domain. Right now FCS can see local users but can not see AD users/groups. We have tried two approch:
1.) Add AD groups into local groups and then add the to FCS.
2.) Add the AD groups right into FCS using the preferences panel.

Neither seems to work. I can still see users on the server but not the AD domain using FCS. Has anybody done this? It seems possible but need guidance. Thanks!

[mlinde]

Is your FCS server set up in “workgroup” mode? I’m still trying to wrangle this, but I keep hearing that the appropriate method to get AD working in 10.5 server is to configure workgroup mode.

I can’t validate at this moment, as I don’t have my 10.5 server test box here – but I will try this week.

[mlinde]

MacTroll wrote:

FCS does /not/ work with AD at this time.

AD only allows specific authentication types. FCS wants to use an MD5 hash which AD won’t actually use without quite a fight.

You are kidding me. !@#$#%

I hope that’s changed before this fall. I’m supposed to evaluate that as a core workflow tool in our environment, and no AD integration makes FCS dead in the water for us. MacTroll, where do you get these details???

[automater]

Since there has been a number of updates since this original post, has anyone been able to get this working?

[mlinde]

Was on the phone with an Apple Engineer yesterday. AD is not supported in FCS 1.0 – period.

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