OSX El Capitan and Active Directory logins?

[doofusdog]

Re-imaged a lab yesterday with OSX 10.11 El Capitan, this is the first time we've had a lab full of Macs, (been Macs for teachers for a few years now)

 

So this time round I joined them to our Active Directory server by: Login Options in the Users & Groups pane of Sys Prefs and the Join.. button. Entered the IP of our primary DC, typed in a unique name, used our AD administrator credentials.. Worked great..

 

Our DC's are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1

 

Imaged them using Deploy Studio, and rejoined the AD on each one after imaging..

 

The problem is some don't get the Other.. login option. Sometimes a reboot picks it up, but for some it doesn't come up at all...

 

This time round I've set up the lab on wifi, using a pair of Ruckus R600's.

 

Autodesk Fusion 360 is going awesome on the machines that do log in..

 

Anybody seen this kind of thing before?

 

I've looked through the threads on here about AD auth, but they seem to be for older OSXs and I'm only wanting logins at this stage since we're using cloud apps.

 

thanks,

Craig

[3s-gtech]

I would set up the login screen to 'Username and Password' rather than 'List of Names' (Login Options). Make sure after imaging that each one has a unique name in the Sharing preferences, and has the same name in the Network dialogs (these can persist even when the Computer Name is changed).