ApplianceWare v.5.3 Complete FAQ – February 24, 2004 – Page 21 of 30
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1.5 ApplianceWare Settings
1.5.1 ApplianceWare and Active Directory
1.5.1.1 How can I join my Appliance into the Active Directory?
First of all, you should examine your ADS server settings. On ADS server, find
Active
Directory Domains and Trusts
, and then right-click the domain where you would like to add your
Appliance to. Now please select
Properties
from the popup menu. On the
Properties window
,
please write down both your
domain name
and
pre-Windows 2000 domain name
.
NOTE
You should have at least Windows 2000
Service Pack 2
installed on your ADS server in order to
join an Appliance into the ADS.
•
Launch ApplianceView, log onto the desired Appliance, click the
Advanced Settings
button, and switch to the
Name/DNS
tab in order to make sure that Appliance name on this
tab matches the one that you have in your DNS records. If
domain name
on this tab does
not match the
pre-Windows 2000
domain name discussed above, please change it, and click
the
Apply
button. Your Appliance will be rebooted in this case.
NOTE
You can change
domain name
only if your Appliance has
static IP address
.
•
Before you proceed with Security mode setting, please do the following things.
a) Synchronize clock of your Appliance and ADS server, with maximum time skew of
two minutes
.
b) Create a separate user account on your ADS server. This user should be at least the
member of
Domain Admins
group. Please check that
“Password never expires”
and
“Use
DES encryption for this account”
options are turned on for this account, and the
non-empty
password
is set. Other options should be left “as is”. This user account should
never
be used to
open a session on ADS server directly or through terminal service.
•
After your Appliance reboot (in case you've changed its domain name settings), please log
