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

[Karsten Jackson]

Hi David,

I have done the same thing recently, added my work mac to our local
windows AD, and had the same problem with the short name of my local
user account. I got around this by setting up a generic administrator
account on the machine, and deleting my user account, but leaving the
home folder there. You then have to change the owner of the home folder
back to the short name, but if bound to AD it will use the AD short
name, allowing you to log into your AD account using your old home
folder. There will be a few irregularities, e.g. your keychain password
will still be set to your old local password (I don't use keychain on my
work machine anyway, for security reasons, so this was not an issue for
me), but you will retain your settings. 

There may be a simpler way to do this, but I found this worked great for
the one or two local accounts on my machine.

Regards,

Karsten Jackson
IT Support Officer
Information Technology Services
University of Western Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: unimactech-bounces at auc.edu.au
[mailto:unimactech-bounces at auc.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Kudrev
Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 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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