joining domain

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tristantristan
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in macOS edited January 2014
Okay, I just got my ibook in and I want to bring it to work and us it. Will I be able to join an NT domain? and would it be best to set up a different user account (home, office)? also can you use the command line to connect to like an aix backend within an NT domain? instead of telnet? Any help would be appreciated as this is my first mac EVER! but from what I have done so far i think i am gonna love it!

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    stimulistimuli Posts: 564member
    Assuming the NT network uses DHCP, it should be easy as pie. People who actually have/use OSX on a laptop might want to chime in here. In OS9 there's a 'location manager' that makes swithing between home/work a one-click ordeal (once properly set up).



    Not sure if X has an equivalent yet.



    [quote]can you use the command line to connect to like an aix backend within an NT domain?<hr></blockquote>



    If NT boxes can connect to it, so can you, using the same protocol. Try opening the Network Manager or whatever it is called, it will scan the network for servers.



    I'd need to know more about your work's network to be of any more use.
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    X has a built-in location manager; it's pretty transparent, which is nice. For dealing with Windows networks, I personally enjoy DAVE. It's still in beta I think, but it works quite well as such. Search for "DAVE" at <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/"; target="_blank">www.versiontracker.com/macosx/</a>
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    tristantristan Posts: 79member
    Okay, I am at work and I hooked my computer up. I can get an IP address (which is good) and telnet over to my AIX boxes which is great also. I can also ftp over to my ibook after setting the ftp option, but I can't browse the web. Our site is set up where only certain users have access to the internet and its on a per log on basis. I am also having to go through a proxy server which is fine cause I can see where to set that up with, but I wont be able to get on the internet until I find where to log onto to authenticate my user name? Any suggestions?? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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    timianotimiano Posts: 11member
    Depends what kind of proxy server you are using. If it is MS Proxy Server 2, then it runs 3 services Web Proxy, Winsock Proxy and SOCKS Proxy. Web Proxy is only compatible with CERN compliant browsers, therefore IE and most other browsers should cope with this. Web Proxy maybe disabled though and Winsock used, which is only compliant with MS clients with the Proxy client installed. If and a big if as it is usually not enabled, is the SOCKS proxy, which should work fine with OS X and it's new UNIX under shell.



    Web Proxy is your best bet, but if User Authentication is used then you may have trouble. Theroetically, it should just ask for a user name and password along with domain. Pop in your credentials and off you go.



    Hope this helps



    Tim
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