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Users and groups

Users and groups

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Users and groups

- Before setting up your server, you should determine who your server will serve. If you're lucky enough to work for an organization with centralized directory services, like Microsoft's Active Directory, you'll want to bind your Mac OS X server to Active Directory using either the directory utility, or the Users & Groups System Preferences. This is done in exactly the same way that you would bind a client system. To do so, you open up the System Preferences by going to the apple and pulling down to System Preferences. You click on Users & Groups, and then you click on Login Options. Now you're going to have to authenticate as an administrative user to do this, but once you do, you simply click on the Join button next to the Account Server listing there. And what you're going to do is, you're going to put in the complete name of the Active Directory server. Don't know what that is? Well, talk to your AD administrator, they're going to know what that server name is for you. You're…

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