[UniMacTech] Bit of a pickle, connecting to Active Directory (local user query)

[Alexia Langley]

Hi David,

>From my understanding, OS X will always search for the local account of
the username first, and even if the password is different it will still
use that account before it searches AD for that username.

Not sure if you can force it to search AD, but perhaps the easiest thing
would be to change the username for either the local account or the AD
account (IE delete your local account and re-create it with a different
username).  Is there a specific reason why you'd need both?

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email alexia at ichr.uwa.edu.au

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-----Original Message-----
From: unimactech-bounces at auc.edu.au
[mailto:unimactech-bounces at auc.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Kudrev
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:02 AM
To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List
Subject: [UniMacTech] Bit of a pickle,connecting to Active Directory
(local user query)

Hi folks, we're experimenting with Active Directory here and I want to  
move my machine onto Active Directory. The settings are set up  
correctly, however, little did I realise, that my shortname for my  
local account, is the username used on the network. I was wondering if  
there's any workarounds that I can log in onto the AD even though my  
local user account is the same username/password? I even tried to  
change the password on the local, and tried to login onto the AD, and  
it didn't budge. Having said that, I've been able to log in on another  
mac and even a Virtual machine with Windows XP onto the AD.

Is there any way that I can somehow keep my preferences on the local  
login and be able to log onto the AD still? Would love some light shed  
on this topic please.


Kind regards

David Kudrev
Desktop Support Officer
Information Services Division
Flinders University
(08) 8201 2345
http://www.flinders.edu.au	

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