[aklug] Re: Joined Active Directory!! Yeah!!

Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hey, remember those posts I made about needing help joining AD? I was
> able to successfully join an Ubuntu box to my University's AD!
> No credit to me, though. After reading numerous cryptic documents about
> SAMBA and joining AD, I finally came across a program called Likewise in
> Ubuntu's package repository. Likewise presented me with a very simple GUI.
>
> All my super had to do was to type in the domain name, and click join.
> It asked for his admin account username and password. (Note: I think he
> had to put the username in the format: username@FQDN. FQDN here had to
> be the domain where _his_ account resided.)
>
> Two other notes: 1) for users to login, its seems that they have to put
> the shortened form of the domain and a backslash before their username
> (in this case, "LABS\username"). 2) for some reason, I can't login to
> the local accounts at the login screen; I'm guessing that I have to use
> some other syntax to indicate it is a local account (probably the local
> hostname).
>
> So then, for students to use the computer, all that is left to do is: 1)
> figure out the local account issue; 2) set up skeleton Desktop files; 3)
> learn how to set up disk quotas, so the students don't fill-up the
> measly 40 GB hard drive.
>
> Another note: Someone I talked to the other day suggested that (instead
> of setting up more Linux-only computers in the future) we consider
> making an image and putting an emulator on all the Windows computers.
> Any thoughts on that?
>
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Local account login seems to be working fine now after a reboot.

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Received on Tue Jul 15 16:20:02 2008