Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.9.0 User Manual
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If desired, MAC OS X can be configured to use Active Directory (AD) resources such as users and
groups. Once a computer is bound to an AD domain, users belonging to that domain may login to
the Macintosh system at the main login prompt. If you do this task, you must also enable Access
Control Lists on the K2 storage you access, either the K2 Media Server (FSM) for SAN access or
the stand-alone K2 system.
1. Open System Preferences and click
Accounts
.
2. If the
Lock
icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the administrator name and
password.
3. Click
Login Options
, then click
Join
or
Edit
. If you see an
Edit
button, your computer has at least
one connection to a directory server.
4. Click the
Add (+)
button.
5. From the "Add a new directory of type" pop-up menu, choose
Active Directory
.
6. Fill in the Active Directory information for the domain administrator account.
The administrator account is only needed at the time of binding. Once the computer is bound to
a domain, all users of the domain can be used to log in to the Macintosh system.
7. Click
OK
.
The Macintosh computer goes through the binding process. If successful, the domain name is
listed with the status message, "This server is responding normally".
8. Click
Open Directory Utility
or, if desired, click
Done
and open the
Directory Utility
from the
System/Library/Core Services
folder.
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