A good step by step with common problems for connecting a stand alone mac to AD. I will say your Windows environment really needs to be by the book for this to work well. This can create further tension between mac and PC support staff because it can highlight cases where perhaps best practices have not been followed (or they are disputed) on the Windows side.
http://www.trioro.com/tech_blog/2008/01/connecting-mac-to-active-directory.html
This will probably be all you need for print queues depending on your windows server. The resources I mentioned earlier also have a good deal of info.
http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/winprtque/apple/index.html?s=301
I would not recommend trying to do a one-to-one program without print queues. Printing directly to printers (especially one share by many users) creates a good deal of unhappiness by students and teachers because there is no rhyme or reason to the order things print, just whoever's request happened to hit when the printer finished its last job. Even worse is the that very few will remember to wait until the job has printed before closing their laptop leading to stuck local queues, and accidental reprints the next time the laptop is opened because the job is being spooled directly from the computer.
_J
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Jason at jasonpj@yahoo.com
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From: Rick Castorani <rcastorani@aimpa.org>
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:29:39 PM
Subject: Re: Managing Macs in a Windows Environments
That is a great point about backing up and transferring the students work.
Also, $900 + server software sounds much more feasible to get my hands on
than requesting an xserver (which I would probably only use about 10% of
anyway).
Jason, is there any way you can expand on what you said about AD access and
print queues being configured locally without third part soft? I will be
calling our apple rep on monday to discuss these options but I prefer doing
my homework ahead of time and would greatly appreciate a point in the right
direction. I have been checking out the links you mentioned previously and
there is some absolutely great information there. I found this kind of
thing for mapping drives which is more of what I'm used to:
http://deploystudio.wikispaces.com/OS+X+10.5+Login+Hooks. Thanks again to
everyone, your input has been invaluable.
Rick Castorani
Academy in Manayunk
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