Active Directory Groups not visible in Mac Address Book

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rr1234@iwon.com - 26 Oct 2005 14:16 GMT

I have a question concerning the Active Directory plug-in in Directory
Access on a Mac system running OS X v10.3.9 with version 1.7.1 of the
plug-in. I also tried it on v10.4.2 OS X Server using version 1.5.2 of
the Active Directory plug-in.

Is it possible to pull in Active Directory Distribution Groups? After
setting it up, I am able to retrieve user accounts in the Mac Address
Book.

I also set up a test system and extended the schema with UNIX
attributes. I tried to use the LDAPv3 plug-in to map the Mac records
and attributes to their UNIX equivalents without any success (obtaining
users or groups). (This may be because of binding, just not sure.)

Has anyone had any success with this? If so, what records and
attributes need to be matched?

Thanks.

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M Paulus - 29 Nov 2005 10:38 GMT

It sounds like a binding issue to the AD forest. Logging onto a Mac in a
Windows environment should automatically bind to the forest as long as you
login as "other" user type and supply the AD user credentials. You can allow
for a local folder to be created to work offline, but to see the groups you
would have to be logged in and bound to the AD. Let me know if that helps.

Best

> I have a question concerning the Active Directory plug-in in Directory
> Access on a Mac system running OS X v10.3.9 with version 1.7.1 of the
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> Thanks.

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Active Directory Groups not visible in Mac Address Book