Sign on to your Mac using a Windows account

I found it worked alright until the user changed the time on his machine. He then couldn't login cause the time wasn't in sync with the domain. Thing was, it screwed his profile for good as far as accessing network shares. The best method for me (in that that user doesn't bother me with it) is to just Pre-stage the AD computer and user account, Bind the mac to AD, and then just have him use a regular local mac account, access the network shares/printers, and save the credentials in the keychain. (But then again, there are only two macs on the company net--also, all this was in 10.3 - he just upped to 10.4, and I'm interested to see if its any better now using AD login to come into the mac)

I work at The University of Melbourne, Australia and we have a campus-wide Active Directory (AD) with approximately 60,000 accounts. Our computers are roughly 60% Windows, 35% Macs and 5% Linux. Since OS 10.3, we have officially supported Macs authenticating via the AD and it works pretty well (even more so with 10.4). See http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/lansg/osx/os-x3-ad.html for the instructions I wrote for joining 10.3 clients--most of the steps also apply for 10.4.

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/01/16/longhorn-its-whats-for-dinner/ The source of the Tshirt :)

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/01/16/longhorn-its-whats-for-dinner/ The source of the Tshirt :)

This might help you out too: http://www.macwindows.com/AD.html

where can i buy ghis shirt?