XP Users – Leopard OSX Server

[FrozenPixel]

We are looking at replacing our Linux server with a new OSX box Server to be the file server and domain controller for 20 XP users, is this a fairly simple thing to setup with the latest OSX server software? I don’t know Linux very well but have a much better understanding of OSX server.

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[mosx86]

I haven’t set one up in 10.5 yet, but we are running a Mac OS 10.4 ODmaster as a PDC and our 10.4 ODreplica as a BDC. Neither system is serving files as we have dedicated file servers for that. We have around 85 Windows XP clients connected to the domain and there haven’t been many problems.

If you’re familiar with setting up a PDC on Linux then you may be a step ahead as Apple’s PDC documentation is not very deep. A few issues we ran into with our setup are that there can be no workgroups with the same name as the Domain, and with the SID not being properly wiped from a previous attempt to set a PDC up.

I’m working on setting up a test PDC w/ 10.5.2 but have only tested it w/ Vista and thus far haven’t been able to get Vista to join. You may wish to look at [url=https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=20187]this[/url] thread for more information on that…

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