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Mlapinski
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Active Directory

AutoDesk has posted a technical document (TS67569) on their Knowledge base stating that AutoCAD has not been tested and is not supported in a W2K Active Directory (AD) environment. Why is that? I find it hard to believe that AutoDesk has not had time to test their products with AD by now. What are the potential issues? Am I risking corrupted drawings? Does anyone have any experience running AutoCAD within an AD environment? If so....does AutoCAD have problems with plotters installed within AD containers? Does the ADLM have issues with AD? The techdoc doesn't state what the potential problems could be and I'm curious to know what, if any, are the issues with AutoCAD and AD that others may have discovered. We're in the process of migrating our servers here to W2K, and then AD soon after, so this kind of information would be very useful for our planning purposes.

Thanks in advance for any information you may have.

-Mike
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Anonymous
in reply to: Mlapinski

Mike -
This isn't from the horses mouth, so you are "on your own" but this is
fairly resonable.

There is no possible way for autodesk to test all the possible ad
configurations that a person can have. There are so many possible
configuration items that it just can't be tested, so autodesk is not
claiming anything. Has autodesk run acad in an ad environment...yes... Are
their rights the same as yours... probably not. To get more specific

What are the potential issues?
Rights, user rights, folder rights, file rights, registry rights. For
example, if you make your acad users "users" as defined by w2k, autocad will
give you errors. It doesn't have enough rights to get to req'd registry
keys. Power users (as defined by w2k) is fine. So "it depends"

We don't have and ad implemented yet, but are working on it so I can't
comment on "specific issues", but in general it should work.

If so...does AutoCAD have problems with plotters installed withing AD
containers?
It shouldn't. As long as windows sees it as a "standard" print device it
should work without any problems.

Does the ADLM have issues with AD?
Maybe, which ADLM? There can be some rights issues with adlm depending on
what you want to do and how restrictive your rights may be (righting to the
root of C on the Flex adlm server for example).

My recommendation (as well as microsoft's) is to build a test network to
start with. Drop some machines in it and see what happens. If that works
start with a small group of actual users and see if that works. If it does
roll it out to everyone. Moving to ad is a MAJOR issue and cannot be taken
lightly. My opinion of the autodesk td that you refer to is that autodesk is
saying "We don't know what you're gonna do, so we can't tell you what will
happend" is completely reasonable, as I can't either.

Will autocad work with the ad? Yes. Will it work with your implementation?
Don't know... If it doesn't build a machine outside the domain and see if it
works. If it does, then your domain is the problem.

hth

jason martin
frankfurt-short-bruza



Mlapinski wrote in message
news:f09bbe1.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
AutoDesk has posted a technical document (TS67569) on their Knowledge base
stating that AutoCAD has not been tested and is not supported in a W2K
Active Directory (AD) environment. Why is that? I find it hard to believe
that AutoDesk has not had time to test their products with AD by now. What
are the potential issues? Am I risking corrupted drawings? Does anyone have
any experience running AutoCAD within an AD environment? If so....does
AutoCAD have problems with plotters installed within AD containers? Does the
ADLM have issues with AD? The techdoc doesn't state what the potential
problems could be and I'm curious to know what, if any, are the issues with
AutoCAD and AD that others may have discovered. We're in the process of
migrating our servers here to W2K, and then AD soon after, so this kind of
information would be very useful for our planning purposes.
Thanks in advance for any information you may have.
-Mike
Message 3 of 3
Anonymous
in reply to: Mlapinski

I just installed a Small Business Server 2000 with AD installed and I can't
get autoCAD to work at all. The installation works fine a long as I'm
logged onto the local machine but when I try to log onto the SBS domain
(with AD) the program will not run and I have tried EVERYTHING including:
-giving user administrator level access.
-reinstalling as user with administrative access.
-reinstalling as administrator/domain (instead of administrator/local
machine).

I am going to have to completely reinstall SBS for the #*!@^$% forth time!

James LeVieux
Engstrom Design Group



"jason martin" wrote in message
news:AAC7CF6F224E5D7F5CF104493F298960@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Mike -
> This isn't from the horses mouth, so you are "on your own" but this is
> fairly resonable.
>
> There is no possible way for autodesk to test all the possible ad
> configurations that a person can have. There are so many possible
> configuration items that it just can't be tested, so autodesk is not
> claiming anything. Has autodesk run acad in an ad environment...yes...
Are
> their rights the same as yours... probably not. To get more specific
>
> What are the potential issues?
> Rights, user rights, folder rights, file rights, registry rights. For
> example, if you make your acad users "users" as defined by w2k, autocad
will
> give you errors. It doesn't have enough rights to get to req'd registry
> keys. Power users (as defined by w2k) is fine. So "it depends"
>
> We don't have and ad implemented yet, but are working on it so I can't
> comment on "specific issues", but in general it should work.
>
> If so...does AutoCAD have problems with plotters installed withing AD
> containers?
> It shouldn't. As long as windows sees it as a "standard" print device it
> should work without any problems.
>
> Does the ADLM have issues with AD?
> Maybe, which ADLM? There can be some rights issues with adlm depending on
> what you want to do and how restrictive your rights may be (righting to
the
> root of C on the Flex adlm server for example).
>
> My recommendation (as well as microsoft's) is to build a test network to
> start with. Drop some machines in it and see what happens. If that works
> start with a small group of actual users and see if that works. If it does
> roll it out to everyone. Moving to ad is a MAJOR issue and cannot be taken
> lightly. My opinion of the autodesk td that you refer to is that autodesk
is
> saying "We don't know what you're gonna do, so we can't tell you what will
> happend" is completely reasonable, as I can't either.
>
> Will autocad work with the ad? Yes. Will it work with your implementation?
> Don't know... If it doesn't build a machine outside the domain and see if
it
> works. If it does, then your domain is the problem.
>
> hth
>
> jason martin
> frankfurt-short-bruza
>
>
>
> Mlapinski wrote in message
> news:f09bbe1.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> AutoDesk has posted a technical document (TS67569) on their Knowledge base
> stating that AutoCAD has not been tested and is not supported in a W2K
> Active Directory (AD) environment. Why is that? I find it hard to believe
> that AutoDesk has not had time to test their products with AD by now. What
> are the potential issues? Am I risking corrupted drawings? Does anyone
have
> any experience running AutoCAD within an AD environment? If so....does
> AutoCAD have problems with plotters installed within AD containers? Does
the
> ADLM have issues with AD? The techdoc doesn't state what the potential
> problems could be and I'm curious to know what, if any, are the issues
with
> AutoCAD and AD that others may have discovered. We're in the process of
> migrating our servers here to W2K, and then AD soon after, so this kind of
> information would be very useful for our planning purposes.
> Thanks in advance for any information you may have.
> -Mike
>
>

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