Specifications

With this arrangement, each user has two accounts, one for logging in to a computer

and one for accessing services of Mac OS X Server, as illustrated in the following gure.

Local directory

domain

Local directory

domain

Mac OS X

Connect to Mac OS X

Server for file service

When the user attempts to access the le service, the le server accesses the shared

directory domain to verify the user account. Because the user computer and the le

server are connected to the shared directory domain, the user account on the shared

directory domain is used to access a computer and the le service without needing a

local account on each computer.

The user logs in to the local directory domain of the Mac OS X computer and then uses

a dierent account to log in to the local directory domain of the le services server.

To share information among Mac OS X computers and servers, you must set up at least

one shared directory domain. With this arrangement, each user needs an account only

in the shared directory domain.

With this one account, the user can log in to Mac OS X on any computer that’s

congured to access the shared directory domain. The user can also use this same

account to access services of any Mac OS X Server that’s congured to access the

shared directory domain.

The following gure illustrates a conguration with a shared directory domain. The

gure shows a user logging in to a Mac OS X computer using a shared directory

domain account. Then the shared directory domain account is also used to access

a le service.

Shared