[mac-nt] Re: OS X and W2K AD for Address Book only

From: Darryl Lee (lee[at]darryl.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 13:26:59 EDT


On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:10:46PM -0400, David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
> On 09/12/02, Darryl Lee scribbled:
>
> > We don't need/want to authenticate with the W2K AD for logging in,
> > we just want to access the LDAP services so that we can lookup e-mail
> > addresses.
> >
> > Unfortunately AD apparently doesn't allow for anonymous access to this
> > info. Has anybody figured out how to set up the Directory Services
> > within OS X to properly authenticate with the LDAP server *just for
> > lookups*, not authentication?
>
> I'm just curious... Why not authenticate to the rest of the domain? That
> way you only need to administer usernames in one spot, right?

The company standard (as is often the case) is W2K. These Macs pretty
much standalone -- don't need access to any corporate resources except
for e-mail and printers.

That being the case, they just want to be able to get to Exchange via
IMAP (done), and use LDAP for addressing.

--Darryl

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