Specifications
 Computer Name: Enter the name you want Windows users to see when they connect
to the server. This is the server’s NetBIOS name. The name should contain no more
than 15 characters, no special characters, and no punctuation.
If practical, make the server name match its unqualied DNS host name. For
example, if your DNS server has an entry for your server as “server.example.com,”
give your server the name “server.”
 Domain: Enter the name of the Windows domain that the server will join. The
domain must be hosted by a Mac OS X Server PDC. The name cannot exceed 15
characters and cannot be “workgroup.”
6 Click Save.
7 Enter the name and password of an LDAP directory administrator account, then
click OK.
After setting up a Windows domain member, you can change access restrictions,
logging detail level, code page, domain browsing, or WINS registration. Then if
Windows services aren’t running, you can start them.
For more information, see Network Services Administration.
Setting Up a Server as an Active Directory Domain Member
Using Server Admin and Accounts preferences (or Directory Utility for advanced
connections), you can set up Mac OS X Server to join an Active Directory domain
hosted by a Windows 2000 or 2003 server.
A server that joins an Active Directory domain can provide le, print, and other
services to users with accounts in the Active Directory domain.
The domain member server gets authentication services from Active Directory. The
domain member server does not provide authentication services to other domain
member servers.
To join Mac OS X Server to the Active Directory domain of a Windows server:
1 Open Server Admin and connect to the server.
2 Click the triangle at the left of the server.
The list of services appears.
3 From the expanded Servers list, select Open Directory.
4 Click Setting, then click General.
5 Click Change.
The Open Directory Assistant opens.
6 Choose “Connected to another directory,” then click Continue.
7 Conrm the Open Directory conguration settings, then click Continue.
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