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ÂÂ 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.

ÂÂ Configure 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 configuration 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 refine the server’s directory configuration, 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 defined 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.