Re: Active Directory Login to Windows 2000 Server

Question

Continuing http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1277356&tstart=0
So we were able to bind the Mac to the Active Directory Domain once the PC admins created an ID for the computer in their "forest". However the user doesn't have access to all the directories that she does from her PC.
The AD admin keeps saying the we need to "Map to the share" - Yes, he's from the past!
So the user on the PC side belongs to a groups called "torcomreg" that seems to give her access from the PC. She can access every other area except for the "Departments" share. (we can see Departments and open it - but we see nothing inside).
Does anyone know how to use "Mappings" and what does "Map UID to attribute:" mean? Are we supposed to enter a UID for this user, or the ID of the shared attribute? How do we get this person access to the directory or the group membership - I'm convinced that this needs to be done on the AD server - but I don't know the verbiage that the admin needs from us.
Thanks in advance - taking over the enterprise on Mac at a time - literally in this case.

Answer 1

You can write an applescript to mount the appropriate shares, then compile the script as an executable.
Make executable script a login item for the user.
It's been a long time since I wrote the script, so I can't recall the exact syntax, but it goes to the effect of
tell application "finder"
begin tell
mount "smb://server/share"
end tell
repeat for each share.