Accounts for Macintosh clients

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Accounts for Macintosh clients

Services for Macintosh uses the same user accounts database as any member of the Windows Server 2003 family. If you already have Windows Server 2003 family accounts created for the people who will be using Macintosh computers on the network, you don't need to create additional accounts. Create accounts only for users who don't already have accounts on the computer running File Server for Macintosh and Print Server for Macintosh.

One aspect of the Windows Server 2003 family user accounts, the user's primary group, applies only to Services for Macintosh. The user's primary group is the group the user works with most, and it should be the group with which the user has the most resource needs in common. When a user creates a folder on a server, the user becomes the owner. The owner's primary group is set as the group associated with the folder. The administrator or owner can change the group associated with the folder.