Mac OS X Lion Server For Dummies®

Deciding Whether to Muck Around with Advanced Configuration

In some cases, Mac OS X administrators want to configure particular settings that appear in the advanced options of the Directory Utility to specify particular ways that the Mac OS X Server interacts with Active Directory. In many cases, the default settings are fine, but in some cases, particularly when the AD schema is for a large company, you may need to make some specific changes to these settings.

All the advanced options specify how the plug-in accepts information from Active Directory for the server itself. The configurations are not translated to clients and groups administered by the Mac OS X Server on the Active Directory domain.

To access the advanced options for configuring the Active Directory plug-in, follow these steps:

1. Access the Directory Utility application by following Steps 1 through 10 in the previous section, “Binding the server.”.
2. Click the triangle next to Show Advanced Options at the bottom of the directory to expand the advanced options, as shown in Figure 7-8.

Three tabs are available in the advanced options:

• User Experience: This tab lets you change some default settings for users, including changing the location of the home directory to point to an external file server rather than the hard drive on the local Mac OS X Server.
• Mappings: This tab allows the administrator to redirect default ...