Pro-Tools and Active Directory

[gcar]

Hi guys,

I was just wondering if its at all possible to give network users admin rights, preferably on a group basis as we will have a lot of students in one class using pro-tools.

I would only like the admin rights to be applicable on this one classroom of macs also.

Ive looked at the active directory plugin and noticed that you can have groups with the “allow administration by” field.

Ive added myself to a security group within active directory and added this group to the above field yet still dont seem to have enough admin rights to change settings in system preferences.

If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Graham

[Chris Rogers]

Hey Buddy,

Good news is that I operate labs that run many non-networkable applications like Digidesign Pro Tools. The bad news is the current version of 7.1 does not support any use of non-admin users. There is a 7.1cs8 update available from digidesign that provides some sort of compatibility for non-admin users, but only local accounts on the workstation, not network users.

I talked to Digidesign support and they said that they are working on a new cs update that will provide compat. for network users, for labs like us.

However, Pro Tools version 6.9.2 works with network users when you chmod 777 directories that Pro Tools uses like Application Support, DAE Frameworks, Preferences, Digidesigns folder, and Pro Tools LE itself.

Hope this Helps!

Email me if you have any questions.

-Chris-
chris@maxtremeservices.com

[gcar]

Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

I had looked into the minor update for protools, but decided that it would be much better to just get network admin users working.

Turns out we had all settings correct on the ad server but missing on the macs.

Several students will be added to an admin group and only particular macs will allow the admin access.

Thanks again

Graham

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