<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To give you a *third* response from The University of Western Australia,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div><div>On 13/08/2008, at 9:01 AM, David Kudrev wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><br>Kind regards<br><br>David Kudrev<br>Desktop Support Officer<br>Information Services Division<br>Flinders University<br>(08) 8201 2345<br><a href="http://www.flinders.edu.au">http://www.flinders.edu.au</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>unimactech mailing list<br>unimactech@auc.edu.au<br>http://www.auc.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/unimactech<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Alex Dawson<br>FAHSS Faculty Computing, University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)<br>08 6488 7093 - <a href="mailto:alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au">alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au</a> - <a href="http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson">http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>