Connecting to the Shared LDAP Directory
Once you have an Open Directory master set up, you must configure the client computers
to connect, or bind, to the server. Using Directory Utility on each client computer, you create
an LDAP configuration that has the address and search path for your Open Directory mas-
ter. This method forces you to visit every computer running Mac OS X, which can be quite
time-consuming if you have a few hundred Mac OS X computers that need to be bound to
your server.
You will now configure your Mac OS X computer to use authentication services from
your Mac OS X Server. You just configured a shared directory, so your Mac OS X com-
puters must be able to see the shared directory in order to authenticate against it. There
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