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

[Alex Dawson]

To give you a *third* response from The University of Western Australia,

If we need them, we setup local accounts with the username prefixed by  
an "l" for local, so jsmith gets ljsmith as their local account.  
However, for general logins in our faculty (380+ macs) people use  
their staff number, and by and large, don't have local accounts.

On 13/08/2008, at 9:01 AM, David Kudrev wrote:

> 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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Alex Dawson
FAHSS Faculty Computing, University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)
08 6488 7093 - alex.dawson at uwa.edu.au - http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson

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