[Gllug] Integrating *nixen (mostly OSX) into MS Active Directory

[Avi Greenbury]

Morning All,

I'm basically after some relatively real-world information on how easy 
it is for OSX and Linux boxes to integrate into a MS Active Directory 
domain.

For some ease of understanding, I'm a junior in an IT department of four 
at a printing company. The IT department is _very_ MS-focused, but the 
studios are exclusively Macs. We're owned by a bigger MS-focused 
company, with a non-technical head of IT.

There's been quite a bit of talk of late about network security and the 
like, and the draft security policy document suggests banning 
non-Windows clients from the network on the grounds that they cannot be 
incorporated into MS Active Directory.

I want to argue that it is possible to achieve some AD integration with 
*nix OSs (I presume I can get quite a bit with an LDAP client?), but I'm 
having fun finding any real-world information on it.

Have any of you got any experience of it, and how successful were you? 
I'm currently more after an idea of what is possible than an explanation 
of exactly how I do it (with a bit of luck I'll be back for that shortly).

-- 
Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk
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