Hello All,
First and foremost forgive me in advance for not speaking the correct terminology with regards to what I am asking here. About two months ago I inherited a mixed network infrastructure that consists of a windows domain and a mix of windows and mac os x 10.5.3 (leopard) clients. Due to some rather severe issues that I’ve found within the windows domain, we are being forced to rebuild. The plan I have in place is to establish a two way trust between the existing windows 2003 domain infrastructure (abc.net) and the newly built windows 2008 domain infrastructure (abcd.org), now in the grand realm of things I can migrate with a tool called ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) windows computer , users, sids, and passwords and bind them all to the new domain without incident…..from what I understand I can also migrate the mac os x 10.5.3 (leopard) computer accounts as well.
However from what I understand migrating the mac os x 10.5.3 (leopard) computer accounts over with them continuing to be bound to abc.net would be a mute point because as I understand it they would continue to be bound to abc.net and will not be cut over (for a lack of better words). With that let me present the question, is there a tool or script that someone here can either provide me with or direct me to that will allow me / us to bind these macs to the new domain (abcd.org) without having to visit each client (which could be a nightmare)
I by definition am a windows guy (always have been, chances are always will be) but in the interest of being fair I work with a very bright apple guy who has stated that we have in place within the existing domain (abc.net) a open directory server “odmaster” and I’ve heard the term “workgroup manager” (are these the same thing?). the thing is I don’t quite understand how they all tie in to one another, I’m pretty certain that I will get there…but for the purpose of this post….I can’t speak to their functionality.
The apple guy that I work with has stated that there aren’t any scripts or tools to perform these functions, which truth be told if so….I have a hard time understanding. I did some google searching and found this tool “bind-computer-to-active-directory”
http://automatoractions.com/files/bi...ectory1.0.html that looks like it works with a tool called “automater” (if so is automater free?) but again due to my limited exposure to macs it looks like it works on a per client basis…which if so won’t really work for us as well….unless its functions can be implemented from a central location.
To summarize I could really use someone’s help here in gaining access to a script or tool that will allow for the un-binding from the existing abc.net domain (if required, which I’ve been told needs to happen) and re-binding to the newly implemented domain (abcd.org) preferably from a central location with automated functionality or limited actions on behalf of the helpdesk.
Thank you,
Shannon
Shannon M. Harvey
Senior Systems Engineer
MetroWestConsultingGroup
an information technology consulting firm
Hudson, MA 01749
shannon.harvey@mwcg.net
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