Windows authenticating Mac O/S 1

[bfletch]

I have a creative services dept consisting of 5 macs. I want to store all there information on a Windows 2003 server and allow them to have access. I also want to authenticate the Macs if that is possible. Can someone tell me how to do this or start it? Right now they have no access to our current Windows system and would like that to change.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ObviousTroll]

How are you authenticating access to the windows server now?

Just give the mac users user-ids and passwords for the server and tell them to log in, just like everyone else.

 

[bfletch]

They are not being authenticated by the servers now. Is there a way where it is to prompt them when they first startup? I know the Mac has a password, but would be similar to logging onto you "Local Machine". I guess what I am asking is how can you setup the Mac or if you can setup the Mac to join the domain and create a domain driven profile on that machine. I setup a Windows 2003 server to all access from Mac's and when they try to hit it, it prompts for a user name and password, but I wanted to have that setup so they can be authenticated when they first login.

Thanks.

 

[ObviousTroll]

You don't authenticate the machine, you authenticate the user. This is what happens in Windows, it's just that windows hides the details from the end user.

when I connect to one of the windows servers in my office, the server demands my windows user id and password, I type them in and I connect. Not quite as transparent, but you can tell OS X to remember the user id and password for future use so you only have to do it the first time.

If your windows server is using Workgroups, this is all you can do. If you are using Active Directory, you can (literally) use your Windows user id and password to log onto the Macs, in which case behavior is even more like Windows.

See

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106471

for some details.

 

[SimonDavis]

Watching this one carefully, as I tried to do the same, but in the end gave up and took the Mac out of the network.

I seem to remember authentication was easy enough, but had to be done every time the user connected to a new network resource - so with 15 mapped drives, it was impractical.

Also I never solved the problem of getting through an ISA firewall - I could get http traffic OK, but most other protocols failed. Updating / emule etc never worked.

 

[ObviousTroll]

Simon,

I think you can get away with authenticating only once iff your apple login is the same as your windows id; otherwise you're right, you have to authenticate each time.