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This is a reported post for a post in the topic <input class="cms_keep_ui_controlled" size="45" title="[post param=&quot;Authenticate Ubuntu 20.04 against Active Directory&quot;]551[/post]" type="button" value="post Comcode tag (dbl-click to edit/delete)" />, by jacobgkau<br /><br /><comcode-quote param="2"><comcode-quote param="Magellan">I didn&#39;t try the 3 proposals I made because I&#39;m afraid of doing something wrong and I can&#39;t afford it. What would happen if the CN parameter waits for a directory or sub directory name and I enter a path? I wouldn&#39;t want it to create a new folder on the server named with the path that I would have entered.<br /><input class="cms_keep_ui_controlled" size="45" title="[snapback]550[/snapback]" type="button" value="snapback Comcode tag (dbl-click to edit/delete)" /></comcode-quote><br />I&#039;m afraid I can&#039;t answer your question off the top of my head, because I (being a Linux user) do not have a Windows server in my apartment right now, and I&#039;m not going to set one up right now. However, I will say that if the server is set up such that you can mess it up by mis-configuring a client, that doesn&#039;t seem like a very well-designed server.<br />Thinking back to my days as a helpdesk technician at a college running Windows, I recall that we always let freshly-imaged machines join the default CN (which is Computers by default) and then dragged them to the appropriate location after they joined (but this was a fairly small college with a sub-optimal Windows Server setup.) I would think the worst-case scenario would be asking your server administrator to click and drag the computers to the appropriate location if the server did allow you to join them to the wrong place. Reading the <a class="user_link" href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/msktutil" rel="nofollow noopener external" target="_blank" title="man page (this link will open in a new window)">man page</a> for msktutil, I see the following:<br /><comcode-quote>For example, specifying &#039;-b OU=Unix&#039; for a computer named SERVER in an Active Directory domain example.com would create a computer account in the LDAP path: CN=SERVER,OU=Unix,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.<br /></comcode-quote><br />So I would think you should start with &quot;OU=Machines&quot;, possibly &quot;CN=Ordinateurs,OU=Machines&quot;, but of course that&#039;s just a guess.<br />If you truly &quot;can&#039;t afford&quot; for this operation to go wrong, then I would suggest setting up a Windows Server virtual machine (like I did when I made that video over a year ago) and running through the process that way. You can get a free-of-cost evaluation license for Windows Server from Microsoft&#039;s website. You&#039;ll get experience with both Windows Server and Linux, and will be able to fine-tune your test to match exactly what you&#039;re trying to do in your lab. If you have questions while setting up VirtualBox, those are questions I&#039;d be able to answer easier since that is software I use on a regular basis.<br />I also wanted to mention that I&#039;ve installed a hotfix provided by the Composr developer (still a legend), and all of our wiki articles are now displaying their commands correctly, with two minus-hyphen signs instead of an em dash.<br />I apologize if my last message came off harsh, I do hope you can get your lab working and I&#039;d enjoy hearing what you find if you do set up a virtual machine to test yourself.<br /></comcode-quote><br />//// PUT YOUR REPORT BELOW \\\\<br /><br /> Add: Add: Font Size Color [Font] Arial Courier Georgia Impact Times Trebuchet Verdana Tahoma Geneva Helvetica [Size] 0.8 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 4 [Color] Black Blue Gray Green Orange Purple Red White Yellow This is a reported post for a post in the topic [post param="Authenticate Ubuntu 20.04 against Active Directory"]551[/post], by jacobgkau [quote="2"] [quote="Magellan"] I didn&#39;t try the 3 proposals I made because I&#39;m afraid of doing something wrong and I can&#39;t afford it. What would happen if the CN parameter waits for a directory or sub directory name and I enter a path? I wouldn&#39;t want it to create a new folder on the server named with the path that I would have entered. [snapback]550[/snapback][/quote] I'm afraid I can't answer your question off the top of my head, because I (being a Linux user) do not have a Windows server in my apartment right now, and I'm not going to set one up right now. However, I will say that if the server is set up such that you can mess it up by mis-configuring a client, that doesn't seem like a very well-designed server. Thinking back to my days as a helpdesk technician at a college running Windows, I recall that we always let freshly-imaged machines join the default CN (which is Computers by default) and then dragged them to the appropriate location after they joined (but this was a fairly small college with a sub-optimal Windows Server setup.) I would think the worst-case scenario would be asking your server administrator to click and drag the computers to the appropriate location if the server did allow you to join them to the wrong place. Reading the [URL="https://linux.die.net/man/1/msktutil"]man page[/url] for msktutil, I see the following: [quote] For example, specifying '-b OU=Unix' for a computer named SERVER in an Active Directory domain example.com would create a computer account in the LDAP path: CN=SERVER,OU=Unix,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM. [/quote] So I would think you should start with "OU=Machines", possibly "CN=Ordinateurs,OU=Machines", but of course that's just a guess. If you truly "can't afford" for this operation to go wrong, then I would suggest setting up a Windows Server virtual machine (like I did when I made that video over a year ago) and running through the process that way. You can get a free-of-cost evaluation license for Windows Server from Microsoft's website. You'll get experience with both Windows Server and Linux, and will be able to fine-tune your test to match exactly what you're trying to do in your lab. If you have questions while setting up VirtualBox, those are questions I'd be able to answer easier since that is software I use on a regular basis. I also wanted to mention that I've installed a hotfix provided by the Composr developer (still a legend), and all of our wiki articles are now displaying their commands correctly, with two minus-hyphen signs instead of an em dash. I apologize if my last message came off harsh, I do hope you can get your lab working and I'd enjoy hearing what you find if you do set up a virtual machine to test yourself. [/quote] //// PUT YOUR REPORT BELOW \\\\ View all Use of this website implies that you agree to the website rules and privacy policy.