And this lesson we're going to cover, finding our clients to our open directory server and the reason
we do this is so that we can authenticate our Mac clients to the user accounts we created on the server.
So all those networking accounts we created, we want to be able to have users log into their computer
using that account and then also automatically access the services that are being shared out from that
server.
So I've got my open directory server that's all set up and I'm on a Mac client now and I'm just going
to go up to system preferences under the Apple menu and go to the users and groups preference.
And I think we covered this before.
Go ahead and authenticate, but it's under login options.
So we've seen some of these settings in the past and we've got network account server and you can join.
And here we just need to enter in the IP address of our open directory server and so we're going to
go ahead and type in one nine two one six eight one nine.
And we'll hit, OK?
We'll trust the certificate here.
Authenticate.
And now when you see the little green dot right here next to the server, that means it's connected.
And at this point, we should be able to log out and log in with any of our network account user accounts
that we created on the server.
And I'm going to hit edit here just to show you.
Shows the IP address here, and it shows that it is an open directory server, you can actually hit
AD and you can add other directory servers here as well, including active directory.
We'll do that in a future lesson.
But this is the open directory one right here.
And we'll hit OK to that.
At this point, we'd be able to log out and log in as Ida or Brian or anybody else that we created those
accounts for.
So you can set this up on all of your machines and provide these workstations to your users.
And any user can log into any workstation using that network account.
Next, we're going to go ahead and just unbind this, so we're basically just going to reverse.
What we did before authenticate, go to login options, go to edit, select our open directory, server
it minus.
Yep, we can't undo this but we want to do it.
So we'll say, OK, well done.
And now that's been removed.
Now I can only log in as the local user accounts again on this machine.
So that's binding and unbinding your clients to an open directory server.