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Authentication from Windows PDC: username aliases?




We have an XServe G5 running Panther Server 10.3.9. It is the only Mac in our building, and we use it as our company's mail server for both POP and SMTP. At the moment it is running as a standalone server for purposes of authentication.


Some time ago, I purchased a Tiger Server upgrade, but I haven't gotten around to installing it yet. When I do install it, I'd like to do a clean install (reformat) and make the machine a member of the Windows domain so that it fetches all authentication credentials from the Windows PDC.

An MCSE buddy of mine claims that one cannot create username aliases for domain users under Windows Server 2003. Seems pretty cheesy to me, but somehow I believe it. Our company policy dictates that one MUST have an email address that is generated as (first initial)+(complete last name)+(@implantsciences.com), with as many aliases as that user wants in addition. But we have no such policy with Windows domain usernames, so we have users whose AD/Windows domain login is, e.g. (informal first name)+(last initial) if that user's last name is particularly long.

If the OSXS machine fetches all authentication info from a Windows AD domain, is it possible still to define username aliases for each domain user account, e.g., in WGM? If so, I imagine the aliases would only be valid on the OSXS machine, but that's fine, since we only need to have aliases for email purposes.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

-Dan


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