#Active directory client for mac os x pdf#
#Active directory client for mac os x free#

The 10.1 Server acted as a gateway which connected to Active Directory. In 10.1 the clients had to connect to an OS X 10.1 Server to authenticate centrally.

#Active directory client for mac os x pdf#

Yes, that PDF was documentation for OS X 10.1. There's a lot of redundancy in the comments for this article but here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned. I would take a job working with Novell and Unix, but if someone wanted me to deal with Windows ADS or NT4 DS again, and not be open to Samba, I would probably not take the job or demand a premium. Besides the fools in the marketing department over there, I was impressed with it. I just setup a Novell 6 server the other day to stay sharp with that stuff. Any other comments on good directory service implementations are welcome.

#Active directory client for mac os x free#

You'll realize that the free stuff right now is primitive compared to NDS. If you haven't given Novell a shot, please do. Novell needs to do only this: Change colors to blue or something, and rip out that licensing shit and start offering to replace ADS/Exchange with NDS/GroupWise for $100 bucks. Novell's image has been so heinously stained, with angry red color schemes, idiotic pictures of polyester clad fools running around on my console dancing or holding up red N's. Are the products of incredible quality? Yes. Is Novell run by intelligent business people? No. It has the proper notion of root, it is possible to merge trunks together, if you've ever used ConsoleOne, you'll see more granularity on this directory and its objects than was ever dreamed possible, cleanly integrated and rather fast. The Novell client integration with Windows NT based operations systems is superior, supporting advanced network trashcans, robust undelete for idiots, and does interesting things like server side searches (as in, if you are looking for the word 'cat' on a network file system, the server does the searching 'for you.'ДЄlso, NDS is much more scaleable than ADS. The server is ugly as sin at the console, but it runs more reliably that one would ever imagine, I had several servers stay up for more than a year.

It has native file sharing so it can appear as a Winderz box. It supports DOS, WinALL, and anything else. My experience since Novell 4.x (I've used it back in the bindery days as well) and NDS has been flawless.

Also, GroupWise is capable of driving Outlook properly, even better than my beloved OpenMail was. Novell, I happen to like very much but it is cost prohibitive. I beg to differ about NDS on Windows ever being a problem.