Specifications

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To have a search policy dened automatically:
1 Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
3 Click Login Options, then click Join or Edit.
4 Click Open Directory Utility.
5 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
6 Click Search Policy and choose a search policy:
 Authentication: Shows the search policy used for authentication and most other
administrative data.
 Contacts: Shows the search policy used for contact information in applications such
as Address Book.
7 From the Search pop-up menu, choose Automatic, then click Apply.
8 In System Preferences, make sure the computer’s Network preferences are congured
to use DHCP or DHCP with a manual IP address.
For information about conguring the DHCP service of Mac OS X Server, see Network
Services Administration.
Dening Custom Search Policies
Using Directory Utility, you can congure a Mac OS X computer’s authentication and
contacts search policies to use a custom list of directory domains.
A custom list starts with the computer’s local directory domain and can include Open
Directory (and other LDAP directory domains), an Active Directory domain, shared
directory domains, BSD conguration les, and an NIS domain.
If a directory domain specied on a computer’s custom search policy is not available, a
delay occurs when the computer starts up.
To specify a custom list of directory domains for a search policy:
1 Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
3 Click Login Options, then click Join or Edit.
4 Click Open Directory Utility.
5 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.