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What is the equivalent of a domain in OSX?
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Sep 9, 2004, 07:41 AM
 
What is the equivalent of a Windows domain in the OSX world?
(Central account management, central policy control?)

Does such a thing exist on the OSX server side?
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Sep 11, 2004, 11:41 AM
 
Originally posted by driven:
What is the equivalent of a Windows domain in the OSX world?
(Central account management, central policy control?)

Does such a thing exist on the OSX server side?
I believe you would be talking about using Open Directory and Kerberos.

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