[Solved] Adding Mageia client to a windows domain

[mithion]

I was wondering if anybody has instructions on how to add a Mageia client to a Windows domain running active directory. My own research has revealed winbind to be the best tool to accomplish that and I found in MCC where to configure it. However I've been unsuccessful so far.

The two screenshots posts show the MCC configuration screens. So my questions are as follows:
1) What is the information it is asking on the screen shown in screenshot2.png? Our domain is called "bishopmanogue.org" and that's about the only information I have.

2) Further reasearch revealed some additional information needs to be configured. For example, I set my DNS addresses to point to the IP of our domain controller (see screenshot3.png). And I also changed my hostname to be the one that is consistent with the active directory.

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[philippe@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# generated by drakhosts
127.0.0.1 bmstaff53


Is there anything else I need to configure manually outside of MCC to allow this computer to join the domain?

Any help is appreciated.

[mithion]

So I figured it out. I didn't need to mess with the network settings at all. I figured out that the Active Directory Realm and the DNS Domain ended up being the same thing. The DC Server was the hostname of the domain controller. After that, I rebooted and it worked. Now I figure out the printing part.

[Germ]

Glad you got it sorted. Could you edit your topic and prefix the title with [Solved] ? Thanks.