Samba can be a PDC, allowing Windows clients to join a single line domain name and then access domain resources (such as roaming profiles) as though the domain were Windows NT-based. When you set this up the default behavior for Mac OS X Server based domains is to create a drive mapping for H: to the users profile path (as specified in the homeDirectory attribute) on the server. H: is kinda’ low for some computers with a lot of drives and it can also conflict with other drive mappings you may choose to use. Therefore you may find that in some cases you need to change the H:. To do…
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Delegating DirAdmin to Windows Clients
The default behavior of a Windows Server NT4 through 2008 based domain is to allow a Domain Admin account to manage Windows clients. A number of environments have been moving over to using the PDC emulator on Mac OS X as a means of replacing aging Windows servers. One of the biggest annoyances is that the Open Directory administrative accounts they use to bind the Windows computers to are not local administrators. When you bind Mac OS X to Active Directory you can specify which Active Directory groups are administrators of Mac OS X client systems so you would imagine you can do the same thing on an OS X…