Unless something new has come out in
recent weeks, Netcom is OK with having MACs but they forbid them to be
connected to AD. NETCOM permits local DOIMs to refuse MACs altogether,
but does not give them the option to allow them to join AD.
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+david.c.sanderson=email@hidden
[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+david.c.sanderson=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Monahan, Jim (Contractor)
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
4:30 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Active
Directory Question
>> On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:04
PM, Ide, Douglas Mr USACFSC wrote:
>>
>> A question: Can
someone from Apple tell us exactly what the
>> holdup is in getting
official approval for Macs to connect to our AD domains?
>> We've been hearing for
quite some time now that it would happen "soon." No
>> one tells us exactly what
the hold up is. What's the problem? Why hasn't it
>> happened yet? Is it going
to happen within the next month, six months, year?
>> "Soon" no longer
really satisifies.
We are being told there is nothing inherently
preventing the Mac from connecting to AD - Netcom is OK with it, to the extent
they provide documentation for an 'approved baseline system' (including
software) for both Windows and Mac platforms.
But Netcom is apparently leaving it up to local
DOIMs to determine if they will allow it.
Local DOIMs, in turn, are passing
the choice to local commanders.
At this site, the local Commander decided that,
with the exception of one user (in graphics production) Macs are not mission
critical, and ordered the rest of the Macs be taken off line and replaced with
Windows boxes. Doim backed him...a few days later, I had gone from 8 OS X
boxes to 2.
One GS14 was allowed to keep his LT as a secondary
machine and internet access, but only with the understanding that if he had a
problem, he would not be provided support of any kind.
The (graphics) user is allowed internet connection,
but has no connectivity to the network shares or email system, except through
OWA, and is allowed HW and SW support.
Jim Monahan
Network Systems Engineer
RSI, Inc, A CIBER Company
Army Training Support Center