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Chapter 6 Initial Server Setup 111
 Import Users and Groups
This setting connects the server to an existing Open Directory or Active Directory
system, importing the users and groups from an existing directory system.
You can import Open Directory users or Active Directory users. You must provide a
directory administrator name and password.
 Congure Manually
This setting used to set up the server to obtain directory information from a shared
directory domain that’s been set up on another server. You can connect to Open
Directory servers or Active Directory servers.
You can also defer directory conguration during setup by declining to specify a
connection in the assistant.
After setup, use Server Admin or the Login Options section of Account preferences
of System Preferences to rene the server’s directory conguration, if necessary. You
can create or change a connection to a directory system by using Login Options. You
can use Accounts preferences to set up connections to multiple directory servers,
including Open Directory and Active Directory. You can make the server an Open
Directory master or replica by using Server Admin to change the server’s Open
Directory service settings.
From Accounts preferences, you can open Directory Utility if you need to set up
connections to other kinds of directory servers or specify the search policy. Directory
Utility lets you set up connections to other non-Apple directory systems and specify a
search policy (the order in which the server should search through the domains).
For information about changing directory services, see the online help and
Mac OS X Server Resources website at www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/.
Note: If you connect Mac OS X Server v10.6 to a directory domain of Mac OS X Server
v10.2 or earlier, users dened in the older directory domain cannot be authenticated
with the MS-CHAPv2 method. This method may be required to securely
authenticate users for the VPN service of Mac OS X Server v10.6. Open Directory in
Mac OS X Server v10.6 supports MSCHAPv2 authentication, but Password Server in
Mac OS X Server v10.2 doesn’t support MS-CHAPv2.
Not Changing Directory Usage When Upgrading
When you are setting up a server that you’re upgrading to v10.6 from the latest v10.5
or 10.4.11 and you want the server to use the same directory setup it’s been using,
choose “Congure Manually” (but decline to provide directory service settings) in
Server Assistant.