Samba, Leopard and Windows 2003 AD. Hurrah!

More Leopard goodness. The office infrastructure I work in is all Windows, with a Windows 2003 AD controlling it all. I was having all sorts of issues with Tiger and the AD. I could use it as a directory, but because of AD and it’s proprietary Kerberos implementation, I could not use printersor any of the network shares. Just to print a document I was having to Remote Desktop into a Windows server.

There are some fixes. See: http://allinthehead.com/retro/218/accessing-a-windows-2003-share-from-os-x. But I am not the Domain admin, and the change was refused.

I was hoping that Leopard’s implementation of Samba would fix the problem, but in the list of 300 improvements, samba was not mentioned. Anyway, my first time in the office in the 2 weeks since Leopard’s release, and it works! I can interact with the windows network seamlessly. I guess if it’s not one of the 300 new features it’s one of the +’s.

Either way I am happy, whether it was deliberate in the apple’s implementation of Samba, or simply a feature of the newer version included in Leopard, it works.