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Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: otemato on February 09, 2007, 05:21:03 PM

i am looking for authenticate a mac osx with a sme domain.
how does it work ?
lapd authenticate ?
smb ?

thanks

Title: Re: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: cactus on February 09, 2007, 05:26:53 PM

Quote from: "otemato"

i am looking for authenticate a mac osx with a sme domain.
how does it work ?
lapd authenticate ?
smb ?

thanks

I don;t know exactly how to do this, but I know Mac OS X is linux based, and the main goal (at the moment) is to provide a windows domain server.

LDAP authentification is not fully implemented, although there is aNFR in the bugtracker which is a general startof in that direction: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543

Title: Re: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 09, 2007, 08:42:57 PM

Quote from: "cactus"

I don;t know exactly how to do this, but I know Mac OS X is linux based...

It's not actually. It's BSD Unix based.

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: otemato on February 15, 2007, 09:44:31 AM

a little help please !

how a mac osx can join a sme domain ?
what is the trick ?
I can't authenticate the mac osx.
what is the config on osx ?

thanks

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: ryan on February 17, 2007, 08:02:54 PM

otemato,

Have a look at:  directory access.app

Located in:  Applications\Utilities

I have OS X bound to AD 2003, working fine.  Try configuring the LDAP services to authenticate against SME LDAP.

I have not tried this, but I have configured Fedora and Centos to use LDAP to authenticate against SME in the past (so it "should" work).

NOTE:  Be aware, make sure your SME server is reachable via your LAN or WiFi network.  If either your nic or Wifi are connected and the SME server is not available (your offsite for example), OS X will take several minutes to login while it attempts to make contact with the server.  To get around this, I make sure my airport is off before I log off AND, I don't plug in my network cable until after login.  I use a MacBook Pro, if your dealing with a tower, this won't be a concern.


Good Luck,

ryan

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: otemato on February 19, 2007, 11:23:50 AM

thank you,
but

I have looked at directory acces and tried to configure it.
but I know sme doesn't store login/password in the LDAP.
So I can't authenticate with LDAP.

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: ryan on February 19, 2007, 04:46:27 PM

otemato,

Your right.  I now recall authenticating Fedora to SME was with SMB/PDC authentication.  Have you tested the smb module of directory access against SME?  I was using SME LDAP for email address book on Fedora/Centos.

ryan

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: BartManInNZ on February 20, 2007, 02:20:22 AM

try the steps outlined here:
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6

Title: join sme domain with mac os x
Post by: otemato on February 21, 2007, 05:41:15 PM

thanks everybody,

but the problem is SME is not active directory domain.
how to authenticate a mac os with the kerberos sme ?