We are currently building a system for our macs to get authentication and home folders from AD. I haven't done this before so bare with me while ask some very basic questions...
We are currently using two separate systems where our pc's use AD or eDirectory and our macs use an old XServe (10.2) to get their authentication and home folders. This system works perfectly but we really need to get things integrated. So I've started to investigate the possibilities of AD integration. I have a test machine which authenticates perfectly to our existing Active Directory but I wouldn't like to lose the control I had with XServe.
I read the AD/OD white paper and that's pretty much what I want to do. We will purchase a new XServe for management and connect it to our large SAN with fibre. This SAN holds user home folders. So basically clients are bound to existing AD to get authentication and to the new XServe OD to get management information. The same XServe is bound to AD and holds the home folders. Clients will get the home folder address (afp) from AD which points to our XServe which was bound to AD. Can I do it like this? Or am I missing something important here?
Thanks in advance!