Does anyone have any experience setting up OS X machines to be Domain Controllers on a mixed network? But not with OS X server... Unless you've got a spare license laying about that you'd like to give me? Right...what I thought. ;) So back to regular OS X Panther. I'd rather not have to use my evaluation copy of WINDOWS Server 2003.
Thanks,
Jeff
I don't think you can set up OS X Client to be an authentication source for other computers. That functionaility just isn't there. Otherwise no one would buy OS X Server.
X is unix, so it should be possible, even if there's no gui app for it like in server.
Technically, darwin is 'unix-like', not true UNIX, but anyway..
OS X is not like Linux or Solaris or other unix-like OS'. They are the OS with whatever Window Manager you want on top (Open Windows, KDE, Gnome, whatever). OS X is specifically designed and packaged with the Aqua interface and has unix-like darwin lurking at it's core. The OS X client software has limitations built-in that make it impossible for it to act as an authenticator. If it were anything otherwise, people would never buy OS X Server and Apple would have a huge security hole on their hands. But that's not the case at all. In order to make it work, you would have to hack and recompile the kernel of OS X client. Good luck with that.
Your best bet is to try using OS X Server or early versions of Rhapsody.
Hello,
I am really curious what Samba running on OS X would do in terms of being a Domain controller. Unfortunately, I do not have spare OS X hardware to try it out with.
I do like Samba on Linux though... :)
Christian
Nothing at all.. Samba is a UNIX implementation of the "Server Message Block" protocol that Windows boxes use to transfer data from point A to point B. It cannot be used for login authentication..
Hello,
I was under the impression it could handle authentications, as I thought it could mimic a domain controller. I'll have to look into that too! Right now, my samba accounts on Linux are matched accounts with the Windoze domain, and matched passwords.
Christian
Hello,
You may look here:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html#domain-example
Christian
Well I'll be..
Great catch, I stand corrected. Thanks for the link, it's been quite educational.
Hi there,
You betcha. I stumbled across it a few months ago, and have been tinkering with the idea of having a domain controller linux box. It will probably wait a bit though, as my main box is RH 9, and one of these days, we will make the migratory jump to Fedora (or SuSE, all depending), and I may take my bites on a fresh install of Samba.
Glad to help.
Christian
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