Joining a win2k3 Domain

[fil_b]

You have exactly the same problem as I (and others) have had trying to bind with Snow Leopard. Everyone (including Apple) just said 'its a problem with your DNS' yet every test I ran came back fine.
Had to go back to 10.5 in the end and it all works flawlessly.

how have you got it working on 10.5? do you use an x serve?

tar
phil

[Arcath]

I solved this in 10.6 by adding this line to my /etc/hosts file

IPOFSERVER server.DOMAIN.LOCAL server

seems to have fixed all the issues i was having

[sidewinder]

Fair enough, Im sure I tried that to no avail, but glad it worked for you!

[sidewinder]

how have you got it working on 10.5? do you use an x serve?

tar
phil

Same way as I tried to on 10.6!

Just bound all clients to the AD domain. I do use an xserve, so they are bound to that too, but only really for managed prefs (and storage)

[ceebster]

Hi Sidewinder

When your users log in to your macs they authenticate against AD

Do your macs also Mapp ( sorrry ) Mount their Windows home directory?



Thanks


Chris

[sidewinder]

They dont, instead they mount a user folder on the mac server, thats just a decision we took because we didnt have enough space on our windows file server for the kids to be saving huge photoshops and cubase projects. So they have a home folder on both servers.

Most people though will just map the windows home drive, and it does work fine