Mac in a Windows domain

Hi
How do i bind mac to a windows domain?
I would appreciate it, if you provide me the steps.

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Hello, we have 1 user in our Windows domain that uses a mac. He has access to a shared drive on a file server, and has all possible permissions. The problem is that he cannot delete or rename files created by others, while he should be able to since he has the rights to do it. Is there a way to fix that?

Are you sharing it out for him as AFP via File and PRint Services for Macintosh?
If so if you go to the main server admin console and click on shares. Then click on the afp share (youll notice it has liek a little network box on the folder instead of the hand) and got to porperties, near the bottom of the window there is a check box that makes the volume read only. Remove the check and apply/ok out and have him reconnect.
If youre using SMB try to connect form his mac as an administrator and see if you have the same problem.

Joining My Mac on a windows domain??? Please Help!!!!!!!!!

Hi,
I am a IT professional and are new to macs.
My company just purchased a new mac the new dual 2 core imac.
I know you can install Windows XP on it but I don't want to do that.
What i want to know is can you join a domain on the new mac os x tiger so the user can get all of there network resources such as shared drives, printing, microsoft exchange server email etc.
If there is anyone can enlighten me on if this can be done or not and if there is some type of client that needs to be installed in order to do this.
We have 2003 Server Standard Edition (Microsoft)
2003 exchange server for email.
Thank you,
Craig Lush
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"What i want to know is can you join a domain"
Yes...use the Directory Access app located in the Utilities folder. And see this page: http://www.macwindows.com/AD.html

How to share network settings, internet between Mac OS X & Windows

I am using Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac to access Windows programs. I am connected to the internet via a USB modem in Windows but cannot open a page in Safari in the Mac window. There is no connection to the internet in the Mac version. Also, is there a way to share documents between Windows and Mac?

Read the blog article File Sharing With Snow Leopard: Sharing OS X 10.6 Files With Windows 7 and see if you can get the idea. If you are putting your Mac in a Windows domain then bookmark the site MacWindows.com because they have the best Administrator tips posts around.

Join to Windows domain, what is benefits ?

Hi there,
I know it's strange question but can you answer it?
If I make my Mac joined a Windows domain what is benefits I get as a system administrator? Is Windows server policy deployed on Mac (Password policy and so on)?
Also if a network user (from Windows server) log in to Mac except home folder what I get?
Thanks for help

If I make my Mac joined a Windows domain what is benefits I get as a system administrator? Is Windows server policy deployed on Mac (Password policy and so on)?
You're right - if you authenticate against the Windows domain, then all the Windows policies are in effect - expiration, password restrictions, auditing, etc.
Also if a network user (from Windows server) log in to Mac except home folder what I get?
I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Windows Domain login and timer

We are binding several Macs to the windows domain here. That really hasnt been an issue, we used Centrify Express, and that went fine. Users can log into the domain no problem. All the Macs were built with a service account (UID svc-account) similar to an admin account on windows. Any user can sit down at a Mac and if they enter good domain credentials they get logged in.
But when a mac is first powered on, and gets to the login screen, the svc-account is first presented, then after about 10 sec, a little arrow appears. by clicking on the arrow, you can choose "other user" and log in with domain credentials. Is there a way to shorten this timer, or default to "other user", or default to any domain user account?

We are binding several Macs to the windows domain here. That really hasnt been an issue, we used Centrify Express, and that went fine. Users can log into the domain no problem. All the Macs were built with a service account (UID svc-account) similar to an admin account on windows. Any user can sit down at a Mac and if they enter good domain credentials they get logged in.
But when a mac is first powered on, and gets to the login screen, the svc-account is first presented, then after about 10 sec, a little arrow appears. by clicking on the arrow, you can choose "other user" and log in with domain credentials. Is there a way to shorten this timer, or default to "other user", or default to any domain user account?

How do I add a Mac to a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 domain?

I recently started working for a public school district that runs Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2. There are several faculty members, myself included, that would like to get their Macs onto the domain and capable of file sharing, printing to network printers, etc. I cannot find decent instructions anywhere. Could someone please point me in the right direction or give me some directions? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm also new to the MAC world - I trust you were able to join the MAC's to the domain - I finally figured it out. However, I have not been able to get the MAC's to save to the Windows 2008 server where I have student folders setup. Have you been able to do this? If so can share the info with us.
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Steve
[email protected]
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Add mac to windows domain

Hi, everyone
I need to get connected to a corporate domain, which is Windows based server.
I have both the name and address of the domain, my user name and password.
But my MBP says all the time that either "server is not existing...." or "can notfind server...."
I would appreciate some help solving this.
Thanks.
Igor

Hi BDAqua,
Why should we create a user again? The point is I am going to join this Mac Mini to a windows domain controller. Windows domain controller means a centralized database of an organization. It is communicating with my Domain controller. But the issue is it is not founding my domain node while joining to a domain. Please find the attached screen shots for your reference. If you have worked on this please send me step by step configuration.

Mac OS X 10.6 Setting up and Printing to Windows Domain Printers

Hi Guys,
I have a Windows Domain currently running here at work. I am running a print server on one of our Windows 2003 Servers.
I have successfully joined 4 Mac Pro machines to the domain. They are all logging on to the domain and can access shares etc.
My problem is that I wish to add the networked printers that appear on the domain print server to the Mac Pros.
When i go to System Preferences > Print and Fax then click the + button. I see a list of all the printers that are exclusively installed on the Windows Print Server.
Some are listed in the Add Printer window as Bonjour and some Open Directory. The Bonjour items I can add fine, its the Open Directory ones that are causing me problems.
How can I add these printers to each machine without manually installing the drivers for each printer on each Mac. Why am I seeing some Bonjour listed printers and some that are not?
Any help would be very much appreciated

Some are listed in the Add Printer window as Bonjour and some Open Directory. The Bonjour items I can add fine, its the Open Directory ones that are causing me problems.
How can I add these printers to each machine without manually installing the drivers for each printer on each Mac.
The answer depends on what printer description language (PDL) these Windows shared printers support. If they are Postscript then it is possible that a PPD for the printer may already exist on the Mac and so all you need to do is select it from the Print Using menu. And if the PPD is not present then you can still select Generic Postscript. But the thing to note is that since you are sharing the queue from Windows, rather than connecting directly to the printer (as you are doing with the Bonjour printer) then the Mac does not know what the printer is so you still need to manually select the correct printer on the Mac.
If the printer is not Postscript and requires a proprietary printer language then would have to manually install this driver on every Mac. And even with this driver installed on the Mac there is no guarantee that it will work via the Windows share. Many vendor drivers are written for direct communication to the network printer. Sticking a Windows queue in between stops the Mac driver from communicating with the printer and this in turn stops the Mac from printing. So if you can tell us what printer models you have then we can provide better information.
Why am I seeing some Bonjour listed printers and some that are not?
Not all network printers support Bonjour. Often only newer models of business printers support this protocol, while it is more prevalent in consumer printers. And what you are seeing is a multicast coming directly from the printer. So if you don't want the users to bypass your Windows print server and connect directly to these printers, then you may not want them broadcasting their presence.
But the benefit of the printer using Bonjour is that they are able to communicate with the Mac what they are and this helps with the Mac determining which printer driver to use, so as you have noted the setup for the Bonjour printer on Mac is easy, because it helps the help with selecting the correct driver.
Hope this helps with your questions. Please reply if you need more information

How to add a Mac Mini device to the windows domain

Hi,
I want to add my Mac Mini machine to a windows domain. Is it possible to add it? I have tried but it is not working. It asks for Client ID While joining to a windows domain. I have given MAC address, IP address and hostname of Windows server but it is not working. Please do help me out to sort out the issue.
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Hi BDAqua,
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Joining a Mac OS X server to a Windows Domain

Hi all, new to the forums here and fairly new to a Mac environment. I'm looking for some guidance and assistance with how to join a Mac Server to an existing Windows domain. My questions are what kinds of options do I have for setting up a server that will be part of the Windows domain and also hosting multiple Mac clients. I looked briefly at the server options like stand alone, member server, domain server, etc. I'm having trouble distinguishing what we want the server to be defined as. I'm also wondering what are the steps I'll need to take in order to join the system to the Windows domain. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
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You use the Directory Access app found in the /Applications/Utilities folder to join the computer to the domain. Once there you can see what options you have.
You also may want to browse http://www.macwindows.com and/or post further questions you have in the Windows Compatibility forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=687

Is it possible to run a Windows domain with a Mac Server?

Looking for some advice on getting rid of our Windows domain controller (DHCP server, AD, etc.) in favour of a Mac Server (which we own). Is it possible to run a Windows domain with a Mac Server?

Snow Leopard Server (10.6) and earlier included Samba which supported acting as an NT Domain Controller (this pre-dates Active Directory). Lion (10.7) and later as standard can no longer act as an NT Domain Controller nor can they act as an Active Directory server.
So the short answer is no.
Theoretically you could port Samba4 to a Mac and Samba4 can act as an Active Directory server. In reality this is not going to be easy but is theoretically possible.
An easier option might be to run a copy of Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) in a virtual machine e.g. using VirtualBox and then run Samba4 in that and configure it to act as and Active Directory server. Then you could connect the Mac side to the Samba4 Active Directory server. This approach would use all Mac hardware, and not have any extra costs of licenses to buy and as far as all the rest of the network is concerned would be a standard Active Directory server environment.

Slow transfer speeds between Mac Pro and Shared Drive on Windows Domain

Hi Guys,
Getting really slow transfer speeds when I try and transfer a file from a Mac Pro to a shared network drive on one of our Windows 2003 Servers.
The Mac Pro is logged on to windows domain. This data is transferring via our hard network, not via wireless. Not having any other transfer speed issues on any other PC's.
For example an 8mb file took around 45 mins.
Hope you can help. Many Thanks.

I saw this at a site where they were using DFS with Server 2003. When the few Mac's they had connected to the actual server and uploaded the file it was okay. But when it was sending the file via the \\DFS_node\share_name the Mac took heaps longer for the same file. Watching the Activity Monitor > Network monitor you could see gaps with the data transfer, as if there was some pausing between packets. A pcap showed that there was constant DNS requests coming from the Mac, even after the connection to the share was made. The same wasn't happening when the connection via SMB was directly to the actual file server. As there was only a few Mac on site they left it with the direct connection but were getting an MS specialist in to look at it. Never heard what happened with that one but you may want to try monitoring the packet transfer to see if the data movement is contstant or breaking. I'd also recommend getting Wireshark to monitor the transfer. You can compare upload to download and maybe even the transfer from the Mac to an MS workgroup share.

How to join windows 7 client to mac osx 10.6 domain controller ?

Hello,
I m IT support in school in france, and the network is an heterogen mix between mac os and windows 7 clients.
The server is under OSx 10.6 and i don t find a workaround/walkthrough to join my windows clients to the domain controller.
Any solution ?
An upgrade of samba engine can resolve this issue ? If it can be, how to do this ?
Thanks and excuse me for my poor english...

I'm not aware of any particular tie-in between Windows 7 and Domain Controller and Samba and OS X Server Open Directory LDAP Services.
Samba did provide limited Domain Controller capabilities and can use Domain Authentication, but the Apple installation from 10.6 is an old release and I've had some problems getting that older stuff to work. You'll likely have to hand-manage Samba to get this to work, by following the directions at the Samba.org web site, too.
The best resource I've encountered for digging around in this topic area is the archives of the Mac Enterprise mailing list.
FWIW, Microsoft has (migrated from? abandoned? deprecated?) Domain Controller authentication in favor of Active Directory some years ago, and Apple has abandoned Samba in more recent releases; this is a dead end. If you are using Windows Server and Active Directory, then OS X Server can be configured in what's called a Magic Triangle configuration; where you have Windows handling Windows authentication, and OS X Server handling OS X authentication, and coordinating across the two. Or (with newer OS X releases) Apple has improved integration with Active Directory.

Connecting to Mac bound to a Windows domain from Windows

I have a 2010 MBP running OSX 10.6.7 which is "bound to the [my company name] domain" (that's how our corporate IT department describes it; not sure if this is technically accurate). We have a mixed Mac/Windows environment but are predominantly Windows based (I log onto my Mac using my Windows user id/password).
I'm trying to access shared files on this machine from a Windows 7 machine on the same domain.
Before I had my Mac bound to the Windows domain, I was able to access my shared files by following the instructions in OSX help (I enabled a shared folder, added my Windows username and password as a local admin on my Mac, turned on SMB access for that user, and all was good).
Now that my Mac is bound to the domain, I can access the directories associated with the local user account I have on my Mac by connecting from my Windows machine as a different user and then entering the account name and password associated with my local user on the Mac.
I can't access the directories associated with my Windows account.
I tried adding a local user (sharing only) to my Mac with the same userid/password as my Windows account, but this prevented me from logging into my corporate network from my Mac, so I deleted this local user.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
thanks.

Partial success: after some experimentation with my local IT guru, I'm now able to access my home directory (which is tied to a network account, not a local one), but I can't access it using my Windows user ID/password.
Here's what we worked:
Confirm sharing is enabled for desired folder, SMB sharing is turned on, my local user account has access to this folder (in the users section of the file sharing dialog), and this local user account is enabled for Windows sharing. [This is no different from what we had previously done]
Get Info on the same desired folder and give read/write access to the folder (help doesn't mention anything about this step; I'm assuming that in normal use - where you're using a local account instead of a Centrify network account - you don't need to do this because you have access to these folders by default. In my case, since I'm sharing a folder in the directory associated with my network account instead of the directory associated with my local account, these permissions are not enabled by default.
Log onto my Mac from a Windows machine using my Mac's local username/password. [Again, this is no different that what I was doing previously, but because of step 2, I can now access the folder associated with my network user]
I'd prefer to just stick with a single user id/password, but this at least lets me access my files.

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