Active Directory Offline Login work??
Hey all,
I'm having an issue with loging in to a Leopard client which is bound to Active Directory. Whenever I unhook this MacBook, off the network, it won't allow me to login to the machine via the domain credentials. In Tiger, I remember there was a check mark option under the AD plugin referring to Caching login credentials for AD, but this is not present in the Active Directory plugin in Leopard.
I also read that caching is a bit dicey in Leopard, so users have just been check marking creating a Mobile User account, and this seems to offer the ability to signing in to your machine without being connected to the network.
But what happens in my case, is that the user goes from being an admin account to a standard account, when offline from the network. Once I re-hook the machine back on to the network, I regain admin control of the machine. This is very odd, as I have not run into this issue before. I am not interested in syncing the home folder to the server at all, and I hope I have not accidentally triggered this, although I think you have to set this up also on the server in order for the syncing to occur, right?
Anyway...all I want to be able to do, is setup offline login of AD credentials on a MacBook. Is this possible while retaining the admin rights of the computer?
Message was edited by: Syrcle
I'm having an issue with loging in to a Leopard client which is bound to Active Directory. Whenever I unhook this MacBook, off the network, it won't allow me to login to the machine via the domain credentials. In Tiger, I remember there was a check mark option under the AD plugin referring to Caching login credentials for AD, but this is not present in the Active Directory plugin in Leopard.
I also read that caching is a bit dicey in Leopard, so users have just been check marking creating a Mobile User account, and this seems to offer the ability to signing in to your machine without being connected to the network.
But what happens in my case, is that the user goes from being an admin account to a standard account, when offline from the network. Once I re-hook the machine back on to the network, I regain admin control of the machine. This is very odd, as I have not run into this issue before. I am not interested in syncing the home folder to the server at all, and I hope I have not accidentally triggered this, although I think you have to set this up also on the server in order for the syncing to occur, right?
Anyway...all I want to be able to do, is setup offline login of AD credentials on a MacBook. Is this possible while retaining the admin rights of the computer?
Message was edited by: Syrcle
