Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide

3.3. Dual Directory

As we've mentioned, you can use Active Directory and Open Directory together. To some, this is called a magic triangle, to others a golden triangle. We're going to use a term that has gained a bit more attention as of late, Dual Directory, to describe the setup. Most descriptions and walkthroughs are made more complicated than they need to be. Basically, you start out with a functional Active Directory environment and a functional Open Directory environment then bind your client machines to both directories, ensuring that both appear in the clients search path. From then on, the client will query each directory sequentially in the order defined by the search path until it receives a successful return.

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