Directory Services and Windows Question

If this question has been asked before or if it seems really simple I am sorry. I have a client that has a small windows work group of XP machines. They want to move to a client server infrastructure but are not interested in the headaches involved in Windows licenses and have asked me about OS X Server on a Mac Mini. My question is if I create the users in the Mac server directory services can they use those usernames and passwords to log into their machines essentially making the Mac Mini run as a "Domain Controller" role or would those usernames and password only be used to authenticate to resources hosted on the Mini?
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Actually, the same problems that existed in ARD 2 still exist in ARD 3 and make it difficult to make this useful with ActiveDirectory (but are not problematic in OpenDirectory). That problem is that ARD looks for a group named "ard_admin" (and others for other purposes), and when you make a group in AD it always gets prepended with your domain name (ie: DOMAINNAME\ard_admin).
The only way of handling this with ARD 2 was to create a local group named ard_admin and add the network users to it, or nest a group, but that only works with 10.4.3+. I asked this question to the project lead for ARD at Apple, and he dismissed this as a "OS issue"... not what I wanted to hear.
There is a work-arround for ARD 3 where you manually change the com.apple.remotedesktop preferences to include other groups, but this will only work if you do it manually for every computer unless you have OpenDirectory. The instructions for this are in the ARD 3 manual (page 62).

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"Randy Stafford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
Hi Mark,
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"Mark Griffith" <[email protected]> wrote:
Randy:
(Rob may post later, but here is my take)
"Randy Stafford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hello Rob Woollen and All,
I have a question about packaging and deployment with the "split
directory
structure"
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in the
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dEar
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cheers
mbg
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