Missing Directory Utility

Directory Utility (and a few others) are missing from my Utilities folder. How can I re-install them?

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 11:33 AM

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Aug 29, 2009 11:58 AM in response to dmef_mike

Actually, Directory Utility is NOT removed from Snow Leopard. It's just not in the Utility folder anymore. It's a bit more hidden.

Go to System Preferences.
Click "Accounts".
Click "Login Options".
Look for "Network Account Server:" and click the "Join" button next to it.
On the next panel, click the "Directory Utility" button.

This is how you now get to Directory Utility in Snow Leopard.

Hope this helps.

Aug 29, 2009 12:05 PM in response to dmef_mike

The "Directory Utility" has been removed from the "Utilities" folder. You can still access Directory Utility by going to System Preferences>Accounts>Login Options At the bottom, it reads "Network Account Server:" with a "Join" button. If you click "Join", you get the option to open Directory Utility!

I've joined my MacBook Pro to my Windows Domain at work and it is a disaster. The computer joins just fine and has a connection to the Active Directory server. I log out, log in as a user on the network, create my Mobile Account. Everything is fine - until I restart. After restart the computer cannot establish a connection to the Active Directory Server, which makes my mobile account take 5+ minutes to log in and when it finally does log in, it strips the mobile account of admin privileges. I'm not on wireless, I'm hard wired into the network.

Any suggestions on how to fix that? This is feeling eerily similar to 10.5.0 through 10.5.5 in terms of reliability for being able to actually be a part of a Windows Domain on a mobile computer. I was hoping Apple wouldn't slip backwards again...

Nov 24, 2009 12:31 AM in response to dmef_mike

Im not a power user of any sort, but i noticed something strange in my disk utilities folder. It appears something might be missing. What I mean by that is that there seems to be a space open in the aligned grid of icons in the folder where something previously might have been. If I open the utilities folder I see a bunch of icons to utilities. these utilities are aligned in rows or 4 and columns of 4. BUT, in the 2nd column of the 4th row there seems to be an icon missing in between the Grapher icon and the Java Preferences icon. Could something just up and vanish.... or is this what you guys are talking about? I have installed Snow Leopard.

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