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by mheitz

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Good morning!
I am getting ready to implement an Apple Xserve in our environment and was wondering about how to integrate my Windows servers with it. We do not have an Active Directory tree at all, just a Windows Workgroup. Will I be able to add my Windows servers as File Servers to the Open Directory structure??? Or will they only be able to authenticate to the domain???

I haven't been able to find a whole lot of documentation other than that stating you can integrate with Active Directory.

thanks!
Mike

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by dumphrey

domain in existance, you will just use Open Directory to provide these services. Or just keep using the workgroup model and not worry about it.
We just finished setting up an OSX in an AD domain, and it does work... The problem I had was that apple makes it "too easy." I kept looking for more settings, which aren't there.

Configure Open Directory as the master browser etc, let it rule the roost and add windows clients to the OD domain.

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