Help on MAC OS 10.4 Server, I'm a newbie...

I've read the documentation and have managed to get it working to a certain extent. Please excuse my lack of terminology and wording on some of these issues. What I'm trying to accomplish is we are a Windows / MAC environment. I've setup a MAC OS 10.4 Server so it can help better manage our MAC users trying to authenticate to the Windows Active Directory. I'm able to bind the MAC clients to AD. I've been able to add the 10.4 OS Server to AD and can pull the domain accounts in Workgroup Manager. The OS 10.4 server is set in Open Directory as " Connected to a Directory System" according to the Apple documentation. Joined Kerberos also with local admin. account. Can't seem to find documentation or figure out how to get the clients to utilize the OS 10.4 server for authentication instead of AD. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

www.afp548.com is your friend. They have a bunch of articles, tips about OD & Active Directory integration.
HTH
- Leland
DP G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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